These are some of the wonderful comments I have received. Please add your thoughts!

Dov Yair (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)

This book is an amazing piece of history…. These photos bring back a lost world that will never return…along with Roman Vishniac’s collection of photographs.

Audrey Friedman Marcus (Denver, Colorado)

The images are beautiful, moving, sad, thought-provoking, significant, and somehow even uplifting. These treasured reminders of family and friends, and of a normal life that was forever destroyed, are a testimony to the human cost of the Nazi atrocities in a way that the more familiar, explicit photos of heaps of dead bodies can never be.

Alfred Nicolisi (Penns Grove, NJ)

While many books about the Holocaust focus on broken remnants of the victims’ physical existence, Weiss’s extraordinary album restores to them their smiles, laughter and songs. With painstaking research and dedication…, Weiss learned their names and family histories. The result is nothing less than a miracle: a restoration to the world of the living, in spirit at least, of these beautiful people of Bendin whose dreams were shattered by events that seem incomprehensible to us today. In one especially touching photo, Artur Huppert holds his twenty-month-old son, Peterle, on his shoulder for the boy’s grandparents with the inscription, “Healthy and strong to the age of 120. Radiant as the moon.” The rest would be silence if it were not for Weiss’s project of remembrance.

From Devorah Lourie

My mother told me about your book. My father is from Sosnowiec. Most of his family was killed in Auschwitz. Years ago I heard a story about a man who ran out into the street shortly after the war was over, yelling, “I took revenge on Hitler!”

He was asked how.

His answer: “My wife just had a baby.”

You, too, are “taking revenge” by bring to life some of what was destroyed by the Nazis through all your work.

From Alan Adelson, Executive Director, Jewish Heritage

Dear Ann,

I’ve been lost for a while in The Last Album. I thought I’d better pull myself away to write before I become lost again in the book for a long while, which is what I intend to do. As you know better than anyone else, these photographs prompt the sort of contemplation about ourselves and those we have so cruelly lost.

From Richelle Budd Caplan, Coordinator for Overseas Programming
International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel

M.G. brought me a copy of your book. That night I read every word and looked at every picture from cover to cover. I was fully immersed in the book. Thank you for bringing these pictures to so many people.

From Lori Orchow Haney

My family comes from the Ukraine. My grandfather was a shochet. Thank you for publishing your book. Somehow looking at people in the pictures makes the entire hell of the Holocaust even less believable, simply because it puts faces to names, and I cannot fathom how anyone could be so devoid of human feeling.

From Ronald Hallett

Hi Ann, If the world had a fraction of the passion you posses,their would be no evil.You did a wonderful presentation tonight.

Debbie Kopel Kintish

Hello Ann
I met you tonight at the Hillel evening event, I am still enjoying the inspiration you passed on.

You remind me of a pebble being dropped in a calm body of water…….your voice, your stories are the ripples that
reach to the ends of the earth. You have a calm but powerful affect of everyone’s life you touch.

Thank you for the sacrifices you have made in you life to make this happen