Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Co-Director of the Institute of Research on Women and Gender, at Columbia University. She is the author of "Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory", among other books. Leo Spitzer is Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor of History Emeritus at Dartmouth College, and the author of many books, most recently "Hotel Bolivia: A Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism."