Shoah Foundation Video Testimony of Oct 7 Survivor
Famed movie maker Steven Spielberg is involved in the making of films about the barbaric Hamas terrorist attack the organization enacted on October 7. Spielberg’s Shoah (Holocaust) Foundation is currently taking video testimonies from people who lived through the horrific events of that day.
The Shoah Foundation was established to record the testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses of that atrocity at a time when the people who lived through it were getting older. The idea was to record everything possible before it was too late.
Now, with all the modern technologies available, the same thing can be done right now while the memories are still fresh in people’s minds. And it is fitting that a Holocaust foundation would take on this task considering that October 7 marked the most horrific attack on Jews anywhere since the Holocaust.
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“The massacre perpetrated by Hamas revealed the terrifying depths of their antisemitism and forced a reckoning for historians, practitioners, and governments,” said Dr. Robert J. Williams, Finci-Viterbi Executive Director Chair of the USC Shoah Foundation. “Sadly, Hamas’ hatred has echoed around the world, unleashing a surge in antisemitic rhetoric and violence which reminds us there is much to learn and work to be done. We must all recommit to addressing and countering antisemitism for today and future generations.”
“Both initiatives — recording interviews with survivors of the October 7 attacks and the ongoing collection of Holocaust testimony — seek to fulfill our promise to survivors,” said Steven Spielberg. “That their stories would be recorded and shared in the effort to preserve history and to work toward a world without antisemitism or hate of any kind. We must remain united and steadfast in these efforts.”
“Rob Williams and the team at the USC Shoah Foundation are leading an effort that will ensure that the voices of survivors will act as a powerful tool to counter the dangerous rise of antisemitism and hate,” said Steven Spielberg, who founded the organization in 1994.
the USC Shoah Foundation’s collection contains more than 56,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust, other genocides, and related forms of persecution. The USC Shoah Foundation is currently building its collection focused on Jewish experiences of antisemitism since 1945, with a goal of adding 10,000 testimonies, including accounts from victims of antisemitic terror attacks.
The USC Shoah Foundation holds the largest video testimony collection of its kind in the world. The collection is housed in the Visual History Archive® which is a digitized, fully searchable, continuously updated resource.
