TO UNITE THE COMMUNITY AGAINST PREJUDICE – Free | Open to the public
Premiere one-time screening of Eva’s Promise
On a train to Auschwitz, 15-year-old Eva made a promise to her older brother Heinz. If he did not survive the camps, Eva promised to retrieve the paintings and poetry Heinz hid under the floorboards of his attic hiding place.
Heinz Geiringer’s story sits in the shadow of the better-known The Diary of a Young Girl. After the war, Eva became the posthumous stepsister of Anne Frank when her mother married Anne’s father. While the world knows Anne’s story, this film introduces Heinz, his artistry, and his sister’s efforts to find and share his remarkable legacy.
Directed by the Emmy Award–winning documentarian Steve McCarthy, Eva’s Promise sold out the Montclair Film Festival in October 2022 and the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival in March 2023.
SPONSORED BY: Holocaust Survivors & Friends Education Center, Community Relations Council of Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York, and Judaic Studies program at the University at Albany