Ann Weiss is the daughter of two Holocaust survivors from Poland. She has worked as a researcher, writer, documentary filmmaker, and educator. She is founder and director of the Eyes from the Ashes Educational Foundation, an interviewer and analyst for the Transcending Trauma Survival Project at the University of Pennsylvania, and has served on the Second Generation Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., since its inception. She lives near Philadelphia with her family.