Shoah Foundation Institute
Shoah Foundation Institute is a no earnings association recognized by Steven Spielberg in 1994. The main purpose of the foundation was to record statement of survivors and other eyewitnesses to the Holocaust like a collection of videotaped interviews. Shoah Foundation Institute aligned with and transferred to the University of Southern California in January 2006 and recognized with the new name USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute Company profile:
Founded: 1994
Type: Educational Institution
Company volume: 45 employees
Male: 52%
Female: 48%
Headquarters: Greater Los Angeles Area
Website: http://college.usc.edu
The USC Shoah Foundation Institute maintains one of the largest video digital libraries in the world nearly 52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and the other witnesses were collected in 32 languages from 56 countries. The main task of this foundation is to overcome injustice, intolerance, and bigotry.
Steven Spielberg, the Founder of the Shoah Foundation was awarded by the Wallis Annenberg. Shoah Foundation Institute works inside USC and with partners in around the world for advance scholarship and research. It is used to provide funds and online tools for educators, and to publish the testimonies in its archive for educational purposes.
In this time the institute is working with the Rwandan organization IBUKA for starting the project of collection testimony from survivors. The testimony which already collected and indexed will be incorporated into the Visual History Archive and contains all testimony previously collected by the Institute.
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