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Shoah Foundation focuses on new mission

Sholiton, Faye
Cleveland Jewish News
04-05-2002
In 1994, filmmaker Steven Spielberg pledged his gift to posterity: He
decided to videotape eyewitness testimony from 50,000 men and women who had
lived through the Holocaust. The interviewees would include survivors from
every victimized group, as well as liberators and rescuers.

Within the next five years, his dream caught fire. Thousands of trainers,
interviewers, videographers and historians came forward to help document
these stories. By 1999, when the recording phase was completed, Spielberg's
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation had logged nearly 120,000
hours of tape from more than 51,700 people in 57 countries and in 32
languages. ...

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