In a small library at the Jewish Community Center in Los Gatos, eight or nine people sit around a square of tables. They listen as Helena Smith reads from typewritten pages. Helena is 90 years old. The people at the table are five, 10 and 20 years her junior, all Holocaust survivors, not the thin, unhappy-looking people one might expect, but robust, bright and healthy- looking, some thin, some a little chubby, with warm, kind eyes and gray hair, one with a walker next to her. These few and others from around the county are writing personal Holocaust stories, something almost no survivors were doing 20 years ago. For more than 30 years after World War II, Holocaust survivors were silent.
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