More generally, it is held that survivors's memories are an indispensable historical source that must be preserved, and elaborate projects are under way to collect them. In fact, those memories are not a very useful historical source. Or, rather, some may be, but we don't know which ones. To say that survivors' memories, or some unknown portion of them, are not a reliable historical source is not to say they haven't been, or won't continue to be, important in evoking the Holocaust experience. The uses to which they'll be put in the future, and how much of an audience they'll command, we can't know.
Most interviewers have only the sketchiest knowledge of the Holocaust.
The way in which the material is being to the public also bodes ill. The foundation's first educational CD-ROM is narrated by teen sex idol Leonardo DiCaprio. This isn't a matter of different interpretations or different theories but of what event we're talking about. The more highly charged the event, the more evocative it is, the greater the incentive to become invested in different versions of it. Then came the trade unionists, but I was not a trade unionist.