USC Shoah Foundation Featured in Book about History of Testimony

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"
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.
Association for Jewish Studies 2015 Annual Conference
USC Shoah Foundation Center for Advanced Genocide Research Director Wolf Gruner and Center Fellow Kiril Feferman will both present papers at the 47th Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies in Boston, Mass.
Gruner will present "Letters and Memoranda: Overlooked Jewish Means of Opposition and Protest Against the Persecutin in Nazi Germany." Feferman will present "Responses of Ukrainian and Russian Jewish Religious Leadership to the Ukrainian Crisi"