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Urgent Call to Preserve Holocaust Survivors' Stories

1/27/2026

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If You Heard What I Heard, a Los Angeles nonprofit, preserves Holocaust survivor stories through interviews with survivors' grandchildren.
There are 196,000 Holocaust survivors remaining, underscoring the urgency to share these narratives.
Founders Carolyn Siegel and Amy Chapman (participant) note the emotional difficulty survivors face in recounting their experiences.
Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the liberation of Auschwitz.
The effort urges recording survivor testimonies to combat denial and distortion of history.

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Story summary

If You Heard What I Heard, a Los Angeles nonprofit, preserves Holocaust survivor stories through interviews with survivors' grandchildren.
There are 196,000 Holocaust survivors remaining, underscoring the urgency to share these narratives.
Founders Carolyn Siegel and Amy Chapman (participant) note the emotional difficulty survivors face in recounting their experiences.
Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the liberation of Auschwitz.
The effort urges recording survivor testimonies to combat denial and distortion of history.