• The Institute houses nearly 59,702 audio-visual testimonies conducted in 69 countries and in 44 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.
• 125,399 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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