Sometimes research goes in an unexpected direction...researching an account of a Holocaust survivor led to shocking accounts of the brutality of the Nazis during World War II as they attempted to systematically eliminate Jewish people in a way we now understand as genocide. Seventy-three years after the end of World War II, the horrors of the genocide committed by the Nazis are fading as the generation who survived the atrocities passes away and our schools fail to educate students about the Holocaust. We cannot forget what happened then, or the continuing instances of genocide around the world. The staggering numbers of people killed are appalling but don’t convey the horror experienced by individuals who survived genocide. It’s through those personal stories that we learn both the depravity of individuals and the strength one can summon to endure evil.