On Monday, Steven Spielberg offered words of caution and hope while accepting an honor from the University of Southern California.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker gave a speech during a celebration honoring him for his contributions to the USC Shoah Foundation, which he established in 1994 to document and preserve his interviews with Holocaust survivors and witnesses.
Spielberg observed that “the echoes of history are unmistakable in our current climate” after hearing the survivor’s stories.According to Spielberg, extreme viewpoints create “a dangerous environment” and “a society that no longer celebrates differences.”
Below is a complete text of the iconic director’s statements, which are as emotional as his best works.
One of the last surviving members of Oskar Schindler’s List, Celina Biniaz, 92, was also recognized at the occasion. Because her parents worked for Schindler, a German industrialist who hired Jews to keep them safe from the Nazis, Biniaz was able to survive the Nazi rule. The Los Angeles Times reported that she escaped the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp when she was thirteen years old.The Countering Antisemitism Through Testimony Collection effort of the Shoah Foundation has been gathering testimony from survivors of the October Hamas assaults in Israel.
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