USC Shoah Foundation Featured in Book about History of Testimony


A new anthology "From Testimony to Story: Video Interviews about Nazi Crimes: Perspectives and Experiences in Four Countries" includes two chapters about USC Shoah Foundation, written by its regional consultants in Czech Republic and Poland.

Eli Gerstner

Giving his testimony to USC Shoah Foundation in 1998 literally changed Hyman Schwartzblatt’s life.

Schwartzblatt’s grandson, Jewish music producer and composer Eli Gerstner, said Schwartzblatt told his family almost nothing about his experiences during the Holocaust. And when he did happen to make an offhand comment about his survival, they never knew what to make of it. What was the truth?

"No Asylum: The Untold Chapter of Anne Frank's Story"


Monday, July 14, 2025 - 09:34 PM PDT

Museum of Tolerance

9786 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035

Dec. 13, 2015, 4 p.m.

No Asylum, directed by Paula Fouce, is the dramatic and tragic story of Otto Frank’s desperate attempts to secure American visas before going into hiding with his family in 1942. Based on recently-discovered letters by Otto Frank in the YIVO Institute of Jewish Research’s archives, the film also includes interviews with Anne Frank’s surviving family.

The screening wil be followed by a Q&A with Eva Geiringer-Schloss, Otto Frank’s stepdaughter, and director Paula Fouce.