First-of-its-kind project, 'If You Hear What I Heard,' films members of the third generation post-World War II who give testimonies in an ongoing docu-series
Grandchildren Tell the Stories of their Survivor Grandparents in New Films
To capture everyone’s stories, she filmed 15 interviews remotely between December of 2020 and this past March, releasing them on April 7, the day before Yom HaShoah.
Courtesy Carolyn Siegel
When the riots were happening in Los Angeles last year, Congregation Beth Israel was vandalized with anti-Semitic graffiti. For Carolyn Siegel, this event was a tipping point. It was the fifth or sixth anti-Semitic incident she’d heard about in the past year, and she had enough.
Siegel remembered what her grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, made her promise when she was eight years old: that her generation would not forget the Holocaust. “It hit me in that moment that I had to do something,” she said.