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30 Years of Preserving History

  • Director Steven Spielberg founded Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in 1994 to videotape and preserve interviews with Holocaust survivors.

  • By 2001, we had collected 52,000 testimonies. Our Visual History Archive now contains almost 57,000 searchable testimonies, the largest such collection in the world.

  • We started digitizing our collection in 2008 and we constantly update our preservation systems. We hold 12 patents on digital collection management technologies that we developed.

  • In 2023, users viewed 223 million minutes of testimony across all our platforms, including our Visual History Archive, YouTube channel, website, and IWitness educational platform. 

Location

Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

In January 2006, the Shoah Foundation moved from Universal Studios to the USC campus in Los Angeles, joining the vibrant and engaged community of faculty, researchers, and students. In 2023, we opened offices at USC’s Washington, D.C., campus.

Expanding Research Horizons

Researchers, students, journalists, policymakers, storytellers, and the public turn to our Visual History Archive to enrich and expand their understanding of history. With its wealth of testimonies, tools, and resources, the archive is vital for deepening knowledge and fostering meaningful insights.

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Our 30-Year Impact

200

Archive Access Sites

7,000

Scholarly Citations

407,000

Educators

27 Million

Students

41 Million

YouTube Views

Viewers around the world watched 223 million minutes of testimony in 2023. Explore some of the interviews they found most compelling.

Robert Clary
Rachel Gottstein
Ella Blumenthal
Thomas Blatt
Shaylee Atary
Millet Ben Haim
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