Renee Firestone Records Interview for New Dimensions in Testimony
It had been a long week and Renee Firestone was tired. But when a group of students showed up on Friday at the dark studio where she had spent days answering questions about her life, her mood quickly brightened, her energy restored.
Renee Firestone New Dimensions in Testimony Filming, Dec. 4, 2015
Photos by Gus Ruelas
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.
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?