Steven Spielberg (Introduction)The renowned director and producer of
Schindler's List has also directed, among other acclaimed films,
Lincoln,
War Horse,
Saving Private Ryan,
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,
Jurassic Park,
Raiders of the Lost Ark,
Close Encounters of the Third Kind,
Amistad, and
Jaws. He established the Shoah Foundation in 1994, inspired by his experience while filming
Schindler's List.
Stephen D. Smith (Preface)The executive director of the USC Shoah Foundation, Smith is one of the world's foremost experts on genocide prevention and the inaugural holder of the UNESCO Chair on Genocide Education at USC. His books include Forgotten Places: The Holocaust and the Remnants of Destruction and The Holocaust and the Christian World.
The USC Shoah Foundation—The Institute for Visual History and EducationIn its first decade, the Shoah Foundation accomplished its worldwide project of interviewing nearly 52,000 survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust, and making their tes-timonies widely available for scholarship and education. Now part of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, the USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive (VHA) currently encompasses 107,000 hours of video testimonies, and is an invaluable resource for education, research, and scholarship. Through innovative online tools, resources, and programs, the institute is teaching the world through testimony.