In 1994 , Steven Spielberg founded the '' ' USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education ' '' , originally called the '' ' Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation ' '' , a nonprofit organization established to record testimonies in video format of survivors and other witnesses of the Shoah . Its executive director is currently Stephen Smith . In an article written for USC , Smith claims that his aim is to educate the public on the horrors of the Shoah , ensuring that they “ remember the six million , so that they do n’t repeat the same mistakes of the past . ” Parallels are also drawn between contemporary events and those of Nazi Germany , such as the rise of antisemitic hate speech , which Smith argues “ needs to be shut down . ” Between 1994 and 1999 , the Foundation conducted nearly 52,000 interviews in 56 countries and in 32 languages . Interviewees included Jewish survivors , Jehovah 's Witness survivors , homosexual survivors , liberators and liberation witnesses , political prisoners , rescuers and aid providers , Roma and Sinti survivors , survivors of eugenics policies , and war crimes trials participants . On September 20 , 2005 , the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation and the University of Southern California ( USC ) , where Spielberg had long been a Trustee , entered into an agreement to transfer the net assets , totaling 6 billion dollars , and control over the Foundation 's Board of Directors to USC in return for the guarantee of the preservation of the archive in perpetuity and the accommodation to continue the Foundation 's mission . In the years since , USC Shoah Foundation 's Visual History Archive has expanded to include interviews with survivors of other genocides , including the Rwandan genocide , Armenian Genocide , Cambodian genocide , Guatemalan Genocide , Nanjing Massacre in Nanjing , China , and the current violence against the Rohingya in Myanmar , which Spielberg described as being " like another Shoah . " The foundation has had some notable employees , such as Jenna Blum , who later wrote the bestselling Shoah-related novel '' Those Who Save Us ''
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