I can't believe that I waited so long to read this article. I'm moved to tears by doing so. What a story. It was so common for the Jews who left Europe as refugees to keep their personal stories tucked away as they tried to get on with their lives.. Stephen Speilburg established the USC Shoah Foundation in order to collect as many stories across the globe as possible. He realized that if he waited too long that most of these survivors would grow old and die with their stories untold. I've been to the Holocaust museum in Los Angeles.