Spielberg’s Charity Expands Focus Beyond Holocaust

The Shoah Foundation Institute at the University of Southern California — a Los Angeles organization established by the film director Steven Spielberg to document the Holocaust — has announced that it is expanding its mission to document memories of survivors from other atrocities, USA Today reports.

After collecting 52,000 interviews, the filmmaker’s effort to record the stories of those who survived Nazi persecution during World War II has widened and he is now focusing his lens on more recent acts of genocide and oppression.

“Our work on the Holocaust will continue. But we plan to join it now to work with others around the world,” said Douglas Greenberg, Shoah’s executive director.

Mr. Greenberg said the organization has begun preliminary discussions to produce similar programs focusing on genocide in Rwanda and Cambodia, as well as stories of life under apartheid in South Africa.