From What Was Written to What We Teach: Youth Diaries and the Work Beyond 1946

In this closing address, Israel B. Bitton, Deputy Director of Project Witness, reflects on the discovery of Holocaust youth diaries and their power as educational tools for a world born long after the war. Drawing together the conference's central themes of survival, rebuilding, memory, and responsibility, he explores how the words written by young people during the Holocaust continue to shape how we teach history, ethics, and empathy beyond 1946.