|| History of Shoah After filming Schindler's List In 1994,
film-producer Steven Spielberg established the Survivors of the
Shoah Visual History Foundation to videotape and preserve
testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses before it
was too late. Having collected nearly 52,000 videotaped
testimonies in fifty-six countries and thirty-two languages, the
mission of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute today is to
overcome prejudice, intolerance and bigotry - and the suffering
they cause - through the educational use of the foundation's
visual history testimonies. The Shoah Foundation Institute is
currently working to develop global partnerships to achieve
three strategic goals: to preserve and provide access to the
archive; to build and support educational programs; and to
develop educational products based on the foundation's
testimonies. The Testimony to Tolerance Initiative is a
community-driven tolerance education program for implementation
in cities across the United States. Des Moines is one of