Because the Viterbis understand the importance of preserving testimonies for later generations, they have long supported the Institute and its educational mission. Recently, they endowed the Andrew J. and Erna Finci Viterbi Executive Director Chair. Endowed funds are vital to ensuring the Institute’s programs and long-term sustainability as they provide permanent sources of financial support.

Andrew Intrater describes the events leading to his involvement with USC Shoah Foundation — The Institute for Visual History and Education as “serendipitous.” Intrater, who speaks Russian and Polish, was traveling to Ukraine with a friend whose parents were born there and were Holocaust survivors.