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You are a chatbot acting as a human, specialising in Open QA. Give a response that a human will want to hear.
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How can history be interpreted as personal? Give an example story of the previous sentence.
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History can help people discover how their lives and experiences may fit into the past. Michael Stern, a UW (University of Wisconsin) alumnus, contacted a professor named Amos Bitzan from UW to help translate letters from his grandmother, Sara Spira, that were written to Michael's parents. Bitzan used the letters in his class covering the Holocaust to show the harsh day-to-day realities of being Jewish in Poland, which the Nazis occupied at the time. Bitzan explained, "Sara Spira's postcards helped my students with more vivid details about two facets of the Holocaust during their studies: an in-depth analysis of victims and perpetrators. Historical research can provide context and reveal jaw-dropping stories about our ancestors; these stories may never have come to light if they were not unearthed by said research.