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Anti-Semitism still haunts Spielberg

Published: Thursday, March 11, 2004 12:31 p.m. MST
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Greenberg said that the foundation had filmed interviews with about 200 of the people saved by Schindler, and that the 77-minute documentary was a compilation of some of the English-speaking accounts. Accounts in other languages, including Polish, Hebrew and Yiddish, are also being turned into a film. "They seamlessly tell the story of their own lives and Schindler's life from the point of view of the Jews who were on the list," Greenberg said. The majority of the 200 live in the United States, Israel or Australia, he said.

The foundation's plans are now almost entirely educational. Talks have begun on making videos about genocide that would include interviews with survivors of the Cambodian and Rwandan atrocities as well as the Holocaust. The larger issue, Greenberg said, is "racism and violence."

Greenberg said the foundation was seeking to make its Web site, www.vhf.org, multilingual in an effort to provide teaching materials to educators abroad. Other educational efforts have already begun or are imminent, including an English-language Web exhibition for students 11 to 14 that highlights testimonies from survivors who were children during the Holocaust.

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Films to be released include five foreign-language documentaries under the title "Broken Silence" by some well-known international directors, which involve interviews and film clips from the foundation's archives. This month the foundation is also making available what it calls a reality-style program, "Giving Voice," in which seven diverse teenagers talk about bigotry and their responses to the testimonies they have witnessed from survivors. The two-part video, released by Universal Studios Home Video, also includes a teaching guide.

Fried, the foundation's community relations manager, said that as many as 500,000 students in the United States, mostly in high school, had seen a documentary or some of the visual histories made available by the foundation. About one million students abroad, mostly in Europe, have seen the testimonies or documentaries, he said.

Many of the Holocaust survivors are quite old now, Spielberg said, because at the time the concentration camps were liberated the remaining prisoners were not especially young. "You have to remember they killed the children first, the children and the old," he said. "Those who could work were kept alive."

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Steven Spielberg with Holocaust survivor Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig; the Shoah Foundation notes 10 years as "Schindler's List" is released on DVD.

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