USC Shoah Foundation

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The USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education, formerly Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to making audio-visual interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust (which in Hebrew is called the Shoah). It was established by Steven Spielberg in 1994, one year after completing his Academy Award-winning film Schindler's List. The concept was to videotape the testimony of Holocaust survivors "before it was too late". Over 50,000 survivors were interviewed in the initial period from 1994-1999. In January 2006, the foundation partnered with and relocated to the University of Southern California (USC) and was renamed the USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education. In March 2019, the institute opened their new global headquarters on USC's campus. The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation was founded by director Steven Spielberg in 1994 after the release of his critically...

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