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March 21 2014
USC Shoah Foundation And Steven Spielberg To Host President Barack
Obama As Featured Speaker At Organization's 20th Anniversary Gala
LOS ANGELES, March 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ On May 7, 2014,
USC Shoah Foundation The Institute for Visual History and Education
will gather in Los Angeles for its 20th Anniversary Ambassadors for
Humanity Gala. To help mark this occasion, the Institute will have the
great privilege of welcoming President Barack Obama, who will speak to
common values and shared responsibilities in building a brighter
future. Institute founder and USC trustee Steven Spielberg will
recognize President Obama with the Institute's highest honor, the
Ambassador for Humanity Award for his global efforts to protect human
rights, his commitment to education and expanding educational
technology, and his work advancing opportunities for all people.
"President Obama's commitment to democracy and human rights has long
been felt," Spielberg said. "As a constitutional scholar and as
president, his interest in expanding justice and opportunity for all
is remarkably evident. The president's recent appointment of the first
special envoy for Holocaust Survivor Services in United States history
demonstrates his staunch commitment to honoring the past while
building a better future. I am extremely grateful to have President
Obama join us on this significant milestone of the USC Shoah
Foundation."
USC President C. L. Max Nikias said he was proud of the Institute's
growth since it joined USC in 2006.
"In just two decades, the USC Shoah Foundation has become a vital
center for Holocaust and genocide studies, as well as a dynamic
partner for advancing education in these areas," Nikias said. "Thanks
to Steven Spielberg's vision, tenacity and dedication, the
foundation's work is now felt across the world, most importantly among
so many young people who learn tolerance and respect through its
educational programs. Such humanistic values will surely remain with
them throughout their livesa testament to the foundation's
importance."
USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen D. Smith said,
"President Obama is a passionate advocate of causes that embody the
work of the Institute. We are honored to have his participation at a
time when memory is becoming history, and Americans take on the
responsibility to remember and act with conscience."
TNT is once again serving as the Presenting Sponsor, continuing a
strong relationship with the institute that has spanned more than a
decade.
"The USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive is an invaluable
tool for promoting tolerance and mutual respect," said Steve Koonin,
president of Turner Entertainment Networks. "The archive providesa
vital link to the past through first-person accounts that have the
power to inform and inspire.TNT proudly supports this significant 20th
Anniversary milestone event and the USC Shoah Foundation's mission to
ensurethat the lessons of history will never be forgotten."
About USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education
USC Shoah Foundation is dedicated to making audiovisual interviews
with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides a
compelling voice for education and action.
Steven Spielberg established the Shoah Foundation after completing the
film Schindler's List to collect and preserve the video testimonies of
survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust. He envisioned that
these eyewitness accounts would have a profound effect on education,
and that the survivors would become teachers of humanity for
generations to come.
Today, the Institute's Visual History Archive preserves history as
told by the people who lived it and lived through it. With its current
collection of nearly 52,000 eyewitness testimonies in 34 languages and
from 58 countries, it is one of the largest digital collections of its
kind in the world.
USC Shoah Foundation is part of the University of Southern
California's Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and
Sciences. Working within the university and with partners around the
world, the Institute advances scholarship and research, provides
resources and online tools for educators, and disseminates the
testimonies for educational purposes.
The Institute is also working to preserve its testimonies in
perpetuity, and to expand the Visual History Archive with accounts of
survivors and witnesses of other genocides. In 2013 the Institute
added an initial collection of 65 testimonies of survivors and
rescuers from the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi genocide through a partnership
with Aegis Trust and in February 2014 an initial collection of 12
testimonies of survivors from the 1937 Nanjing Massacre were
integrated into the Visual History Archive through a partnership with
Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall. The Institute is also working to add
collections from the Armenian and Cambodian genocides, as well as a
collection of Testimonies from North Africa and the Middle East.
For more information about the USC Shoah Foundation, please go to sfi.usc.edu.
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March 21 2014
USC Shoah Foundation And Steven Spielberg To Host President Barack
Obama As Featured Speaker At Organization's 20th Anniversary Gala
LOS ANGELES, March 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ On May 7, 2014,
USC Shoah Foundation The Institute for Visual History and Education
will gather in Los Angeles for its 20th Anniversary Ambassadors for
Humanity Gala. To help mark this occasion, the Institute will have the
great privilege of welcoming President Barack Obama, who will speak to
common values and shared responsibilities in building a brighter
future. Institute founder and USC trustee Steven Spielberg will
recognize President Obama with the Institute's highest honor, the
Ambassador for Humanity Award for his global efforts to protect human
rights, his commitment to education and expanding educational
technology, and his work advancing opportunities for all people.
"President Obama's commitment to democracy and human rights has long
been felt," Spielberg said. "As a constitutional scholar and as
president, his interest in expanding justice and opportunity for all
is remarkably evident. The president's recent appointment of the first
special envoy for Holocaust Survivor Services in United States history
demonstrates his staunch commitment to honoring the past while
building a better future. I am extremely grateful to have President
Obama join us on this significant milestone of the USC Shoah
Foundation."
USC President C. L. Max Nikias said he was proud of the Institute's
growth since it joined USC in 2006.
"In just two decades, the USC Shoah Foundation has become a vital
center for Holocaust and genocide studies, as well as a dynamic
partner for advancing education in these areas," Nikias said. "Thanks
to Steven Spielberg's vision, tenacity and dedication, the
foundation's work is now felt across the world, most importantly among
so many young people who learn tolerance and respect through its
educational programs. Such humanistic values will surely remain with
them throughout their livesa testament to the foundation's
importance."
USC Shoah Foundation Executive Director Stephen D. Smith said,
"President Obama is a passionate advocate of causes that embody the
work of the Institute. We are honored to have his participation at a
time when memory is becoming history, and Americans take on the
responsibility to remember and act with conscience."
TNT is once again serving as the Presenting Sponsor, continuing a
strong relationship with the institute that has spanned more than a
decade.
"The USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive is an invaluable
tool for promoting tolerance and mutual respect," said Steve Koonin,
president of Turner Entertainment Networks. "The archive providesa
vital link to the past through first-person accounts that have the
power to inform and inspire.TNT proudly supports this significant 20th
Anniversary milestone event and the USC Shoah Foundation's mission to
ensurethat the lessons of history will never be forgotten."
About USC Shoah Foundation - The Institute for Visual History and Education
USC Shoah Foundation is dedicated to making audiovisual interviews
with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides a
compelling voice for education and action.
Steven Spielberg established the Shoah Foundation after completing the
film Schindler's List to collect and preserve the video testimonies of
survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust. He envisioned that
these eyewitness accounts would have a profound effect on education,
and that the survivors would become teachers of humanity for
generations to come.
Today, the Institute's Visual History Archive preserves history as
told by the people who lived it and lived through it. With its current
collection of nearly 52,000 eyewitness testimonies in 34 languages and
from 58 countries, it is one of the largest digital collections of its
kind in the world.
USC Shoah Foundation is part of the University of Southern
California's Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and
Sciences. Working within the university and with partners around the
world, the Institute advances scholarship and research, provides
resources and online tools for educators, and disseminates the
testimonies for educational purposes.
The Institute is also working to preserve its testimonies in
perpetuity, and to expand the Visual History Archive with accounts of
survivors and witnesses of other genocides. In 2013 the Institute
added an initial collection of 65 testimonies of survivors and
rescuers from the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi genocide through a partnership
with Aegis Trust and in February 2014 an initial collection of 12
testimonies of survivors from the 1937 Nanjing Massacre were
integrated into the Visual History Archive through a partnership with
Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall. The Institute is also working to add
collections from the Armenian and Cambodian genocides, as well as a
collection of Testimonies from North Africa and the Middle East.
For more information about the USC Shoah Foundation, please go to sfi.usc.edu.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwgeeks/article/USC-Shoah-Foundation-And-Steven-Spielberg-To-Host-President-Barack-Obama-As-Featured-Speaker-At-Organizations-20th-Anniversary-Gala-20140321#.Uy1E4caKDIU