Shoah Visual History Foundation

In 1994, after filming Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg established Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation with an urgent mission: to videotape and preserve the testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses. Today, the Shoah Foundation has collected more than 50,000 eyewitness testimonies in 56 countries and 32 languages, and is committed to ensuring the broad and effective educational use of its archive worldwide.

Ten years later, the Shoah foundation has a new educational mission: to overcome prejudice, intolerance, and bigotry - and the suffering they cause - through the educational use of the foundation's visual history library.

More About Shoah Visual History Foundation

The Shoah Visual History Foundation cooperates and collaborates with institutions and organizations around the world. The Foundation relies upon the guidance and experience of local archives, libraries, museums, universities, educational organizations, and others in each of the countries where we work. These alliances with friends and colleagues around the world present an opportunity to accomplish work that neither the Foundation nor its partners could complete alone.

The Archive:
Learn about the Shoah Foundation's archive: how it was collected, how it is preserved, how it is being catalogued and indexed, and how to gain access to it.

Search The Testimony Catalogue:
The Testimony Catalogue allows users to search data that correspond to more than 45,000 of the visual history testimonies housed in the Shoah Foundation's archive.

Access The Archive:
The Shoah Foundation makes the archive accessible for research and educational purposes.

About The Archive:
Learn more about the scope and size of the archive, about the methodologies that enabled its collection, and about those which continue to support its dissemination and preservation.

Watch Testimony:
View clips of testimony by searching through an online Visual History Collection.

Visit Shoah Visual History Foundation

You can visit the Shoah Visual History Foundation online at: VHF.org. Inspired by the film, Schindler's List, the Foundation's website contains information about our work, and offers links to other Holocaust-related sites. The website has recently been redesigned to provide more detailed information about the Foundation's archive, operations, educational materials, and future direction. In addition, the Shoah Visual History Foundation site includes online donation opportunities.