She so correctly encapsulates the urgency of the situation:
A desperate race against time is now, here in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and across the Jewish community. A race to save firsthand experiences, shards of the Shoah, in voice and memory.
The last generation of Holocaust survivors are in their 80s and 90s, near the end. And what their eyes have seen when they were young is too important to lose to time. The Museum seeks to preserve their eyewitness remembrances and artifacts (such as uniforms, passports, letters) for its international archives.
And she goes on to quote me: … a tape recorder can set the tone for a serious conversational focus on the past. Expect to hear things tumble out you’ve never heard before. It’s amazing what memories — and perhaps documents — you can find, Gold says.
In the process of melting ice, you will hear “glorious snippets,” Gold declares. “Families should do that (interview.) They will regret it bitterly if they don’t. Then you’ve missed your chance.”
This program addressed the ongoing challenges of restitution and the resources available for people, like me, who want to research the fate of family members and construct legal cases.
This evening at the USHMM speaking to a crowded theatre audience on the subject of justice for Holocaust victims, whose property was seized during the Nazi era, and their lives torn apart.
Joining me on stage were museum experts Dr. Leah Wolfson and Dr. Suzanne Brown-Fleming.
Initially he had reservations about reading the book, arising from his disappointment at the derisory compensation given to former Nazi slave laborers in Auschwitz whose cause he had championed as their honorary academic adviser. Yet Dr Pinto-Duchinsky discovered that his hesitation had been misplaced …the book shows the exceptional determination, skill and luck needed by Jewish heirs in search of belated justice.
And, encouragingly, he believes that stories such as mine appear … to be helping rather than hindering elderly survivors of the concentration and death camps and their families. I do hope that is the case.
The theater at London’s JW3 in Finchley was packed for my interview today with Melanie Phillips about Stolen Legacy. Tickets had sold out days beforehand and some people had to be turned away at reception as a result. The audience loved the photos we were able to illustrate the story with and lots of people came up to me afterwards to tell me their family histories.
Journalist Jamie Stiehm has written an interesting column entitled Racing Against Time to Remember, Reclaim Pieces of the Holocaust. Her piece was also syndicated by Creators.com in The National Memo.
The USHMM invited me to speak at an event on March 15 entitled 
This evening at the USHMM speaking to a crowded theatre audience on the subject of justice for Holocaust victims, whose property was seized during the Nazi era, and their lives torn apart.
In his Standpoint magazine review, entitled 