Tiffany D.V.

I just wanted to say "Thank You" again for coming and speaking to my students at Southwest Behavior Program. I truly feel that your message resonates with them. I have worn the pin a few times and see it almost everyday in my jewelry box. I just have to hold it and touch it and your story stays with me. With the pin, I feel as I can remember every word, every part, every picture. It is almost as if all of those stories, of everyone who was murdered, are held within that tiny pin, begging to be told. It is a constant reminder of many conflicting things in life and in the Holocaust such as murder and new life, despair and hope, defeat and triumph and even the Holocaust, with all the horror there was still some good done. There were those who tried to help and those that survived, how many of them did such wonderful things with their lives. So although the pin makes me feel a little sad it also gives me hope and a sense of duty to do everything I can to insure that genocide stops and to help everyone remember what happened.

Thank you again and I hope that we can hear your story again next year.

Tiffany Dawn Valencia
Southwest Behavioral Program