Every way of engaging survivors has benefits as well as costs. A great deal more collaborative work could be done in the area of Holocaust and genocide survivors. The primary disciplines that have been involved with gathering and interpreting survivor accounts - history and literary studies - rarely engage recounting directly. It is obviously too late to redo most of the ways we have engaged Holocaust survivors. This chapter aims to make the case for the virtues of collaborative work. Contexts other than the Holocaust are now most likely to yield innovative work