The story of 3 Generations began in 1945 when Sidney Bernstein, the father of founder Jane Wells, entered the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen with the liberating British Army. He had been instructed by the Allied Forces to create a documentary film showing the Nazi atrocities they found as they liberated the concentration camps. His work inspired Wells to continue his legacy by chronicling contemporary stories of human rights abuses. She began in 2005 with Darfur, the first genocide of the 21st century.