Steven Spielberg launches USC Shoah Foundation’s IWitness Video Challenge
Director Steven Spielberg commemorated the Schindler’s List 20th Anniversary Limited Edition Blu-ray™ release with the global launch of the USC Shoah Foundation’s IWitness Video Challenge on Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at The Chandler School in Pasadena, CA.
“I implore educators not to allow the Holocaust to be a footnote in history, please teach this in your schools,” Spielberg said. “There are 350,000 experts who just want to be useful for the remainder of their lives. Please listen to the words and the echoes and the ghosts and please teach this in your schools.”
Spielberg was joined by middle and high school students who participated in the program while in Beta. IWitness Video Challenge is an online program from the USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education that brings thousands of taped testimonies of Holocaust survivors into the classroom for guided exploration. For more information, visit http://iwitness.usc.edu.
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