(From left: Steven Katz, Abraham Zuckerman, Wayne Zuckerman)

Abraham Zuckerman spent most of his life bringing honor and attention to Oskar Schindler, who saved his life during the Holocaust. Now, his children have honored Zuckerman himself by helping to bring to life the new book Testimony: The Legacy of Schindler’s List and the USC Shoah Foundation.

Testimony was made possible with support from Zuckerman’s son Wayne and his wife Deborah and his daughter Ruth and her husband Steven Katz. The hardcover, large-format book is published by Harper Collins, and proceeds from the sale of Testimony will benefit the USC Shoah Foundation. With introductions written by Steven Spielberg and USC Shoah Foundation executive director Stephen Smith, Testimony commemorates USC Shoah Foundation’s 20th anniversary by combining the story of the making of Schindler’s List and the organization it inspired: the USC Shoah Foundation.

Abraham Zuckerman was born in Cracow, Poland, and was sent to six different concentration camps before being transferred to Schindler’s factory in 1943 at age 19. He and his wife Millie, whom he met at a displaced persons camp after the war, moved to New Jersey and Abraham began a successful career in real estate development.

The book features excerpts of various testimonies in the Visual History Archive, including Zuckerman’s, and comments from Ruth about her memories growing up. Schindler frequently came to visit the Zuckerman house, and Abraham spent much of his life working to honor Schindler with streets named after him and other tributes, including recognition at Yad Vashem and a scholarship in his name at Hebrew University.

And for the last 15 years of his life (he died Dec. 12, 2013, at age 89), Steven Katz said, he fought to get Schindler on a U.S. postage stamp – a project Katz is still working on.

Wayne Zuckerman said he remembered Schindler, a “giant” at 6’4”, being a warm presence in the Zuckerman house when he was a kid.

“If you saw the man, he looked like a German Nazi, but he was a pussycat. A gentle man,” he said.

Katz and Zuckerman said their support of Testimony was a tribute to Abraham and way to show him that they would continue his mission to not let Schindler or the Holocaust be forgotten. The book is beautiful, they said, and Abraham was “in awe of it” when they presented him an advance copy for his birthday just a week before he died.

“The book is another way to show what happened and the strength of the Jewish people,” Katz said. “[Abraham] was not an emotional man, but it made quite an impact on him.”