Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
History
The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, or simply Shoah Foundation, was established by Steven Spielberg in 1994, one year after completing the Academy Award-winning film "Schindler's List". The original aim of the Foundation was to record testimonies of all of the remaining survivors of the Holocaust (Shoah), as a collection of videotaped interviews. The Foundation proceeded to collect over 50,000 interviews over the next few years. Testimonies were received from many different survivors, including Jewish, homosexual, Jehovah's Witness, Sinti and Roma survivors, political prisoners, and survivors of the eugenics policy. In addition to survivor testimony, interviews were also conducted with rescuers, aid providers, liberators, witnesses and participants in war crimes trials. As of 2001, the Foundation announced its new mission: "To overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry and the suffering they cause through the educational use of the Foundation's visual history testimonies." (newsletter, Spring 2004)
Documentaries and Other Works Survivors of the Holocaust, 1996 The Lost Children of Berlin, 1997 [ Edward R. Murrow Award ] ; Educational CD-ROM, 1998 The Last Days, 1998 [ Academy Award ] Erinnern für Gegenwart und Zukunft (Remembering for the Present and the Future); German Educational CD-ROM, 1999 Broken Silence; Series of five foreign-language documentaries, 2000 Remembering Ośwęicim, 2000 One Human Spirit, 2003
Links and References Survivors of the Shoa Visual History Foundation Austrian Holocaust Memorial Service Are you interested in how the Shoa Foundation works?:
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