Wednesday, April 22, 1998 | 10:23 a.m.
Michael Barenbaum, president and CEO of Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, will speak at 7 p.m. at the synagogue, 1600 E. Oakey Blvd. His topic will be the Shoah Visual Foundation and its recent recording of the eyewitness testimoney of the 40,000th Holocaust survivor in the foundation's worldwide database.
The founder and chairman of the Shoah Visual History Foundation is film director Steven Spielberg, who began documenting Holocaust survivors after filming "Schindler's List." To date, the Shoah Foundation has collected testimonies in 49 countries, with interviews conducted in 30 languages.
The author of 12 books and scores of scholarly articles and journalistic pieces, Berenbaum was formerly director of the United States Holocaust Research Institute of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and, from 1988 through 1993, served as project director for the ground-breaking museum. In 1996, he won the Academy Award for Best Short Documentary, "One Survivor Remembers: The Gerda Weissman Klein Story."
Among his published works are "The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as told in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Little, Brown, $21.95) and "After Tragedy and Triumph" (Cambridge University Press, 1990). Of "The World Must Know," one reviewer wrote: "It is must reading for anyone who would like to be human in the post-Holocaust world."
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