Rebecca Kiil is a writer, oral historian, and filmmaker. Rebecca earned a B.A. in English from Wake Forest University and an M.A. in oral history at Columbia University, and she attended the Salt Institute for graduate studies in documentary film photography. For almost a decade, Rebecca has been working to document the life histories of family and community members who fled their homeland of Estonia during World War II to escape the brutal Soviet and Nazi regimes, then lived for several years in various displaced persons (DP) camps in Germany and Sweden before resettling in the U.S. Before Rebecca's maternal grandmother passed away in 2020 at the age of 102, Rebecca spent seven years filming, researching, and helping document her grandmother’s story, much of which her grandmother hadn't previously shared with anyone. In her oral history work, Rebecca explores themes such as intergenerational trauma, embodied memory, women and war, ethical loneliness, forced migration/displacement, and the refugee regime. Most recently, she has been exploring her obligation, both as human and oral historian, to individuals who have been forcibly disappeared or otherwise silenced and how the practice of oral history can be applied to capture their stories.