As Tuesday marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a local organization is keeping the stories of the survivors alive through their grandchildren.
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“‘If You Heard What I Heard’ is the first and only nonprofit to film the stories of grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, the last generation to ever hear survivor stories firsthand,” Carolyn Siegel told KNX News’ Emily Valdez.
Siegel is the granddaughter of two Holocaust survivors and learned their stories when she was 8 years old.
“We sat down at his kitchen table, and he started to tell me how he survived the Holocaust and how he had a brother and two sisters, and his sister was married and he had a nephew,” she said. “And he just…said the way he said it's almost in disbelief. Fifty years at that point after the fact, the way he said, ‘the Nazis murdered my family,’ you couldn't not feel the pain and the loss and the grief.”
There are 75 people, including some celebrities, who have told their stories on the website. There's a waitlist of 500 more people waiting to share their story.
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