Our volunteer writing partners are people of different ages, life stages and religious, cultural and education backgrounds. They share the desire to learn more about the Holocaust and support survivors in telling their stories in the manner that was meaningful to them.
It’s hard to put into words what the experience of transcribing the experience of a Shoah survivor does to one, or makes one realize. Safe to say, I personally gained a new appreciation for what the value of human empathy and family love mean to each of us. Regardless of what befalls us, the deep connection that families have for one another is everlasting, and for those of us who are not blood relations, we ought to honour the humanity in others, just as we would in ourselves. These are values that I held before embarking on this project, but they became even more profound after having completed it. Namely the need to see the humanity and suffering in all, connected as one. This world may never be a eutopia, but we can very much arrive at a point close to it by using empathy — the golden rule!
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