Holocaust survivors' project lets them tell their stories from beyond the grave
by Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent from Technology | The Guardian on (#1HZPX)
Forever Project in Nottingham records elderly survivors answering 1,500 questions from children on Nazi era
When she was nine Janine Webber lived in a hole in the ground. She was there for a year. There was little room to move, no fresh air or daylight and nothing to eat apart from crusts of bread and raw onions. By then she had already lost to the Holocaust her father, mother, brother and grandmother.
Against all odds the little Jewish girl survived. Now, at almost 84, she knows the days are numbered. The living memory of Europe's darkest days is fading as Jews who escaped the Nazis and emerged from the death camps pass away.