On a train to Auschwitz, 17-year-old Heinz Geiringer told his sister Eva that he hid the paintings and poetry he had created beneath the floorboards of their attic hiding place. Heinz made Eva promise that if he should die in the camps, she would retrieve the artwork. Today, his story lives in the shadow of the Diary of Anne Frank—and in a twist of fate, Eva became Anne’s posthumous stepsister when after the war 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.

Documentary, 2022, run time 60 minutes

Steve McCarthy is an Emmy Award–winning TV news producer and documentary filmmaker. A former staff producer for 60 Minutes, Dateline, and CNN, he founded McCarthy Productions in 2001, producing work for major networks, including PBS, BBC America, and HBO. His films include Finding Paddy (2006), The One That Got Away (2016, PBS), Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (2019, HBO, Emmy winner), and Life with Layla (2019), about a family affected by the opioid crisis. McCarthy teaches documentary film and journalism at Montclair State University.