Many are dying every day. They deserve to know what happened to their fathers or their uncles. This archive can help them.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys";

There was a certain amazement that he had, and up until the day he died, he would talk about how amazed he was by the fact that he was born in this small town, he got out of there, he saw the world. He?d been all over the place, met all kinds of famous people, and I think he just wanted to keep a record of that.

I get 30 or 40 calls a day. Sometimes it's other traders; sometimes it's customers, collectors. And sometimes it's (Indian) artists.

It?s just a lot of little things that have accumulated. I?m just too old for it. If you don?t have a meeting of the minds, something has to be done, and I did it.

Sixty years after the end of the war, it's time.