The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education is an institution founded by Steven Spilberg in 1994, a year after he had directed the film “Schindler’s List". The aim of the institute is the recording of the greatest number of video testimonies of people rescued from the Holocaust and of witnesses of the extermination of the Jews of Europe.
Between 1994-1999, 52,000 interviews were conducted with Jews rescued from the Holocaust, with people who saved Jews or extended them help, with political prisoners, gypsies survivors, homosexual survivors and with people subjected to eugenic experimentation.
The archive of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education is hosted by the University of Southern California. The catalogue and testimonies are available on the Internet.
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Education
In the traditional Jewish culture all boys embarked on education, which was associated with the religious obligations of men. In Poland cheders for boys from 4-5 to 13 years of age functioned. In some cities the Talmudic schools (yeshivas) operated. All religious schools were private, paid for by parents. For the poorest and orphans religious schools, supported by Jewish communities (Talmud-Torah),(...)
Education
In the traditional Jewish culture all boys embarked on education, which was associated with the religious obligations of men. In Poland cheders for boys from 4-5 to 13 years of age functioned. In some cities the Talmudic schools (yeshivas) operated. All religious schools were private, paid for by parents. For the poorest and orphans religious schools, supported by Jewish communities (Talmud-Torah),(...)
Extermination
Shoah [Hebrew]
The planned genocide of European Jewry perpetrated by the Nazis and based on the racist doctrine was one of the pillars of German fascism. This ideology proclaimed the need to remove Jews and other "lower" races from the German Lebensraum.
The history of the Holocaust may be broken down into three phases: 1933-39, 1939-41 and 1941-44. After Hitler came(...)
Holocaust
[English, from the Greek holokaustikós = "burnt whole"]
A term used in English to describe the extermination of European Jewry during the Second World War; other languages have also adopted it. The expression has been rejected by many Jewish scholars and theologians because of its religious context, who prefer to use the Hebrew word Shoa instead.
Gabriela Zalewska
