A2: Rwanda

The New York Times published a first-person account by Patricia Pasick of Ann Arbor, who describes the path that led her to start Stories for Hope, a nonprofit foundation that’s gathering interviews of survivors of the genocide in Rwanda. “As a family therapist, I knew that it would be damaging if people remained quiet. We learned from the Holocaust that many in the next generation really suffered from the silences. If you don’t know what happened in the past, your mind can distort the facts. These distortions can create a disturbing intergenerational legacy.” [Source]