Esther Finder has borne witness to the worst of humanity. Parents bleeding out as their children watched. Children murdered in front of their parents.
The stories she's heard — of cruelty and degeneracy, bravery and ingenuity — stagger the imagination. As a teenager, Finder's father survived a dozen Nazi concentration camps by posing, variously, as a doctor, electrician and furrier. One time he hid inside a man-size cauldron.
In all, Finder, a retired psychology professor, has recorded the testimony of nearly 250 survivors of the Holocaust.