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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: Steven Spielberg's Holocaust project is back, and looking for more Canadian survivors
Description: Back in the 1990s, after directing Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg kickstarted a global effort to film the testimony of as many Holocuast survivors as possible. Teams of interviewers were sent out to film survivors in the U.S., Israel, Canada and beyond.
Today, more than 50,000 videos sit in the archives of Spielberg's Shoah Foundation at the University of Southern California. It has become the world's largest collection of Holocaust and genocide survivor testimonies, all freely accessible to schools and researchers.
In 2018, years after the project wrapped up, the foundation's organizers renewed their efforts to speak...