Translations:Introduction/20/en

That kind of material is of immense social and historical value, and when faced with it—say, a statement of a survivor of a mass execution or a letter of a husband to his wife from a concentration camp or a scarf made by a mother for her disappeared son—no reasonable citizen, let alone a human rights activist, could allow it to be lost and forgotten. Our core values, our very instinct, all our training, and our experience scream at us that such invaluable evidence, such pieces of history, must be preserved—as well as made public—for the current and future generations of citizens dealing with the legacy of violence from their country’s past.