This website was created for Justin Cammy's Holocaust Literature class at Smith College. It features the letters, documents, and keepsakes of his grandmother, Lottie Suk [nee Wotizky]. Lottie was interned at the Czech concentration camp Terezin during the Second World War.

Through this website, you can do more than read Lottie's story, as she means for it to be told. You can also look through documents that tell her story, and browse through small objects she kept with her in the camp and has kept for all of these years.

As you use this site, consider the nature of her story, and the nature of history. How do we come to know and understand what we consider to be history? What makes up a story? Were you only to look at the pictures of Lottie's treasured keepsakes, would you understand just as much about her, and her hardships? How do keepsakes, fragments of documents, and amateur memoir of ordinary survivors add a new layer to our study of the intersection between narrative and history?