California Story Fund
Multiply by 6 Million
Mercy High School
San Francisco
Project Director: Evvy Eisen
Stories and photographs of Bay Area Holocaust survivors
This project will present on DVD the stories of approximately 25 San Francisco Bay Area residents who survived the Holocaust. The half-hour DVD, called Multiply by 6 Million, will also include original black and white photographic portraits of the survivors by photographer and project director Evvy Eisen, and an original piano score written and performed by a survivor.
Marin County artist Eisen began photographing Holocaust survivors and collecting their stories in 1992. In 2002, Eisen created an exhibit based on that work which has traveled throughout California. “That exhibit was very well received and after talking to curators and exhibit visitors I saw the need for a permanent record,” Eisen said.
The public will have a chance to see the DVD at a number of venues, including Mercy High School, where it will be screened as part of the school’s annual Holocaust Studies Program, and at St. Mary’s College in Moraga.
“We hope that the film will plant the seeds for greater understanding and tolerance and bring home to people the consequences of failing to act to prevent injustices,” Eisen said.