SPIELBERG LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN AGAINST GENOCIDES THROUGHOUT THE GLOBE

PanARMENIAN.Net
27.04.2007 13:20 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation is expanding
beyond the Holocaust to document survivor memories from other
atrocities, USA TODAY reports.

After collecting 52,000 interviews, the filmmaker’s unprecedented
effort to record the stories of those who survived Nazi persecution
during World War II is now applying the mantra "Never forget" to more
recent acts of genocide and oppression.

"Now we ask ourselves: How do we make this vision a priority in
communities all across the world?" Spielberg said.

The announcement came Monday night at a benefit dinner featuring
Spielberg and other leaders from the Shoah organization, attended by
hundreds of Hollywood power brokers.

"Our work on the Holocaust will continue. But we plan to join it
now to work with others around the world," said Douglas Greenberg,
executive director of the Shoah Foundation Institute at the University
of Southern California.

"Our commitment is to combat (violence and racism) wherever and
however we can – no matter who the victims are."

Greenberg said the Shoah group has begun early discussions to enact
similar programs focusing on genocide in Rwanda and Cambodia as well
as stories of life under apartheid in South Africa.

"The obligation to remember is a moral responsibility that all of
us owe to all of those who have suffered violence and racism in the
modern world, whether they are Jews or Armenians or Cambodians or
Rwandans or Darfuris," Greenberg said.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress