shoah foundation

Shoah Foundations are organizations that are formed to further the remembrance of the Holocaust of World War II. There are currently two major foundations that are internationally active.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education is a non-profit organization 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 (which in Hebrew is called the Shoah) as a collection of videotaped interviews. The Foundation’s mission is to support projects in all areas of history and research into the Shoah, education and transmission, memory, solidarity. USC Shoah Foundation Institute has recorded the video testimonies of 52000 survivors of the Holocaust from 56 countries.