To commemorate the anniversary, a DVD of "Schindler's List," the Academy Award-wining film about Oskar Schindler, the real-life war profiteer who saved more than 1,100 Jews from death in Nazi concentration camps, is being released Tuesday. It will include a 77-minute documentary being distributed for the first time, "Voices From the List," with testimonies from some of the survivors saved by Schindler.

"Schindler's List" won seven Oscars, including best picture and best director. The film, with its brutal depiction of genocide, was an unexpected success for Spielberg: it grossed $321 million around the world. His own profits from the movie reached $65 million.

He donated the money to create the Righteous Persons Foundation, which was set up to encourage the flourishing of Jewish life in the United States. At the same time, Spielberg created the Shoah Foundation. Douglas Greenberg, the foundation's president and chief executive, said it had raised $160 million so far. Of that, he said, Spielberg has donated $54 million.

Spielberg said that his goal was to create an archive of more than 50,000 videotaped testimonies of survivors as a permanent record and a source for teaching students. Zev Fried, manager of community relations for the foundation, said that there may have been as many as 300,000 survivors around the world 10 years ago, but that the figure was uncertain.

Spielberg said he had seen hundreds of testimonies over the last decade. "The biggest surprise was how forgiving and optimistic, how much they embraced life," he said. "My first prediction was I was going to hear so much anger, and I didn't. They didn't sound like victims. They sounded like people who had been hit by a sledgehammer, and they were hit so fast and so often they couldn't account for the reason behind it. They were just lost in why this happened."

"They saw the warning signs, the restrictive laws and programs that happened in the '30s; they saw something," Spielberg said. "They just couldn't possibly foresee what came. No one had the imagination to imagine that kind of inhumanity. They couldn't see it coming. To this day there still is shock and a tremendous sense of loss.

"And many of them came to realize that their survival was a miracle, and they didn't understand what made them so deserving of survival. Many have been haunted by that guilt for all the postwar years."

The archive was collected in 56 countries and recorded in 32 languages.