USC Shoah Foundation

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. 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 relo