... the Holocaust. History is a record of interpretation. "So people are shown not what they were, but what they must remember having been"1. It is the memory of the past that makes the history so significant, not the hard facts of the history itself. Though we as a society would like to hope, indeed believe that it is a record of truth, it is merely a memory. History is a story based on someone else's truth, someone else's interpretation, and someone else's experience. The record of history is ultimately the record of an interpretation of truth, but when the truth is something malleable, something coloured by factors such as race, age, life experience, it leads us to question how reliable the truth really is. The desire from children of Holocaust survivors to record personal histories before it is too late is to some, more important than the survivor's desire or lack ...

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