"Truth telling and bearing witness are important ... helping to acknowledge, honor and memorialize what victims have suffered and their resilience as survivors," said Volker Turk, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights.
"We started contemplating what to do with these stories, how to share them widely, and we realized that survivors often made reference to certain objects and personal belongings," said Hadi Marifat, executive director of AHRDO.
The physical facility known as the Afghanistan Memory Home Museum no longer exists. Because the Taliban had threatened the museum's organizers, they decided to close when the Taliban marched into Afghanistan's capital city in 2021.
The idea culminated in a permanent physical exhibit of personal items from various individuals. The items are displayed in containers that tell individual stories, linking personal memories to broader historical narratives.
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