After the Second World War, some survivors faced isolation, loneliness, and mistrust of society. Their stories were not of interest to the broader public, and their accounts were too horrifying for most people to listen to or even believe. Their past remained in their present, existing as a shadow inside them and kept away from the light. Living between a desperate desire to forget and, at the same time, the need to tell and memorialize, some survivors remained silent for a significant part of their lives. Only in recent decades, as survivors are rapidly leaving us and with them the last chance to take part in their stories, have some of them begun to speak about their harrowing experiences openly… In the last chapter of this series, you will encounter Laura Kaye and her son Paul Kaye, who discuss the challenging task of re-discovering their family history.

Music by Di Gasn Trio.

Cover by @annet_bad

The interview of Eva Behar is from the archive of the USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education. For more information: http://sfi.usc.edu/