The Shoah Foundation is turning 20 this year. Filmmaker Steven Spielberg got involved with the Shoah Foundation after making Schindler’s List.
According to the Associated Press, Spielberg said in a telephone interview, "It literally popped into my head on the drive back to my house in Krakow after a day of shooting the film that if Schindler's List had any success at all, the success would not be a monetary, commercial one, but the success would be that this film would open a door for me to start taking as many testimonies as humanly possible."
Spielberg created the Shoah Foundation after meeting with Holocaust survivors. The filmmaker said that he when he created the Shoah Foundation, he got 51,413 accounts in 34 languages from 58 countries. The foundation grew after that, and it incorporated education and outreach.
According to the PRNewswire, The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation is scheduled to honor filmmaker Steven Spielberg. Spielberg has won three Oscars, including a Best Director Academy Award for Schindler’s List.