Two more articles about the importance of personal stories!

1.) Author Samuel Pisar, a Holocaust survivor, recently wrote an Op-Ed piece for the New York Times, “Out of Auschwitz”. Click here to read more.

“Today the last living survivors of the Holocaust are disappearing one by one. Soon, history will speak about Auschwitz with the impersonal voice of researchers and novelists at best, and at worst in the malevolent register of revisionists and falsifiers who call the Nazi Final Solution a myth.”

2.) University of Utah researcher Becky Lloyd is documenting the containment and treatment of polio by interviewing those who’d been infected. (In the twentieth century the polio virus paralyzed thousands of people. Infections peaked in 1952 and a 1955 vaccine eradicated the illness.) Lloyd quickly found that interviewees also wanted to discuss their current struggles with post-polio syndrome, too.

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Both articles stress the importance of collecting personal stories before it’s too late.

We’re constantly reminded of this when we do quality testing on VoiceQuilt keepsakes – and hear a quick snippet from a grandparent relaying a story about childhood. I always feel good about those messages. Won’t it be inspiring when a grandchild hears that story twenty years from now? Perhaps it will give that grandchild the courage to persevere in the face of a major life challenge…

Start preserving those personal stories now! Please go to www.VoiceQuilt.com and click "Get Started" to create your own personal sentimental VoiceQuilt..