"Each leg of the journey was as diverse as each situation that confronted us was unique, but in each place we found something that helped fill in the gaps of this history, and the picture of this activity crystallized….Israel was rich with information. This is where I met most of the artist-survivors who were the most informative, helpful, and generous of all.

As we brush each other's lives with courtesy and respect for the hosts in whose lands we are guests, the encounters can be enriching and friends can be made. These meetings more importantly point out our similarities rather than our differences, which in the end are perhaps the only way to avert such a tragedy as a Holocaust."
—Mary Costanza