This book explores the narratives left behind by testimonies from survivors of violence and abuse in Colombia’s civil war and examines how the testimonies have impacted their personal healing and contributed to building a collective memory. Various forms of testimonies are introduced,  orally and written, through arts and weaving, and even through animation workshops with ex-guerrilla children. The victims as well as the perpetrators represent a wide variety of groups in society, revealing a need for the use of different methods and approaches to each of them. The testimonies have been gathered for several purposes: to facilitate recovery from trauma, to achieve social justice, and to preserve a historical memory in Colombia and Latin America. Different perspectives on how to interpret the narratives the testimonies leave us with are presented. They are discussed with a focus on how central issues such as the need for justice and how to meet the future, are perceived by the individuals and groups they represent, and how each of them tries to solve these challenges in their own way. Despite the multitude of perspectives from the victims, the reader is left with the important impression that individuals and groups, who normally are marginalized and forgotten when war history is written, now have become included in the history about the long-lasting civil war in Colombia. This is so, even if the narratives they leave behind are quite varied and open for interpretation. Moreover, the victims have also been able to find a certain degree of personal healing through the testimonies they have given as a part of this process.