What is the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education?
The mission of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute is to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry – and the suffering they cause – through the educational use of the Institute’s visual history testimonies. In 1994, after filming Schindler’s List, Steven Spielberg established Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation to document the experience of survivors and other witnesses to the Holocaust, including those who aided, rescued, and liberated the survivors. With a collection of nearly 52,000 video testimonies in 32 languages and from 56 countries, the Visual History Archive is the largest in the world, requiring 200 terabytes of storage.
