Key Facts

The Institute houses nearly 56,669 audio-visual testimonies conducted in 65 countries and in 45 languages.
Steven Spielberg founded the Institute in 1994 to videotape and preserve interviews with survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust.
The Institute holds 11 patents on digital collection management technologies it developed.
The Institute celebrated its 20th Anniversary in March 2013, commemorating the start of filming Schindler’s List in Krakow, Poland.
The Shoah Foundation moved to its permanent home at the University of Southern California in January 2006.
Testimonies average over two hours in length, including personal history before, during, and after firsthand experience with genocide.
119,565 hours of video testimony have been recorded with all content indexed and searchable to the minute.
Rwandan testimonies were added to the Visual History Archive and IWitness educational website in Spring 2013.
Currently the USC Shoah Foundation employs 60 people worldwide.
Dr. Stephen D. Smith serves as Executive Director of USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education.

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