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New Visual Center to include Shoah
Foundation’s testimonies
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President and CEO of Survivors
of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Douglas Greenberg
(left) and Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Avner Shalev |
On 28 June, Chairman of the Yad Vashem
Directorate Avner Shalev and President and CEO of Survivors of the
Shoah Visual History Foundation Douglas Greenberg signed a
historic agreement in which the Shoah Foundation, established by
filmmaker Steven Spielberg, will provide Yad Vashem with access to
all 52,000 testimonies in the Shoah Foundation archive—including
those of more than 8,500
Holocaust survivors and other witnesses recorded in Israel or in
Hebrew outside of Israel—and all associated metadata
(biographical information and referential keywords for further
research). This landmark partnership will create worldwide
cooperative educational activities, exhibit Shoah Foundation
testimonies in
Yad Vashem’s new
Holocaust History Museum and Visual Center opening next year, and
generate other cooperative activities in the future.
“Complimentary to documentary
evidence and historical research, the testimonies of survivors add
the personal and human aspect to the legacy of the Shoah,”
said Shalev. Greenberg agreed: “This partnership joins the Shoah
Foundation’s unrivalled collection of video testimonies to the
incomparable work of Yad Vashem—the leading institution in the
world focused on Holocaust documentation and education. In so
doing, the agreement reaffirms and strengthens our shared
commitment to understanding the Holocaust in fundamentally human
and moral terms.”
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Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority |
