30 Years of Preserving History
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Director Steven Spielberg founded Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in 1994 to videotape and preserve interviews with Holocaust survivors.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Photo Gallery
A walk through our history, from VHS tapes in the backlots of Universal Studios to our state-the-art technology center and elegant headquarters at USC.
Our 30-Year Impact
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Viewers around the world watched 223 million minutes of testimony in 2023. Explore some of the interviews they found most compelling.
Hogan’s Heroes actor and Holocaust survivor and educator. (02:00:27)
Child survivor endured four concentration camps. (02:15:55)
Participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and subject of 2021 documentary “I Am Here.” (04:38:22)
At the age of 16, escaped Sobibor death camp during a prisoner uprising. (02:50:10)
Fled her home in Kfar Aza with her four-week-old daughter on October 7. (00:47:28)
Hid in the bushes for hours at the Nova music festiva,l where 360 people were killed by Hamas. (00:48:25)
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