USC Shoah Foundation

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/usc-shoah-foundation

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the founding year?1994
2. What is the founder?Steven Spielberg
3. Why did Steven Spielberg start the foundation?After making the movie Schindler's List, he saw how powerful stories can be and wanted to save the memories of survivors before they were lost.
4. How does the foundation collect survivor stories?Trained interviewers ask survivors in their own language, record the conversations on video, and then organize and store them in a big digital library.

Holocaust: The systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators, alongside millions of others.
Testimony: A formal statement or account of evidence or facts, especially from someone who has experienced an event, crucial for historical verification and understanding.
Visual History Archive: A comprehensive collection of audio-visual recordings documenting personal experiences and historical events, serving as a primary source for research and education.
Genocide: The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.