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DESCRIPTION:Leah Hecker\, In 1994\, Steven Spielberg founded the Shoah F
oundation with a single urgent mission: to record the testimonies of Holoc
aust survivors before time ran out. The result was one of the largest oral
history archives in human history - more than 55\,000 interviews\, conduc
ted in 65 countries and 43 languages. Leah Hecker was one of the intervi
ewers. In this talk\, she takes you inside the work: the training\, the me
thodology\, the experience of sitting across from a survivor and being tru
sted with their story. At a moment when the last of those survivors are
leaving us\, sharing knowledge of the Shoah Foundation - and the human eff
ort behind it - matters\, she hopes.
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SUMMARY:Leah Hecker---Shoah Foundation
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Leah Hecker\, \;In 1994\, Steven Spielberg founded t
he Shoah Foundation with a single urgent mission: to record the testimonie
s of Holocaust survivors before time ran out. The result was one of the la
rgest oral history archives in human history - more than 55\,000 interview
s\, conducted in 65 countries and 43 languages. \;Leah Hecker was one
of the interviewers. In this talk\, she takes you inside the work: the tr
aining\, the methodology\, the experience of sitting across from a survivo
r and being trusted with their story. \;At a moment when the last of
those survivors are leaving us\, sharing knowledge of the Shoah Foundation
- and the human effort behind it - matters\, she hopes.