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of information would have to watch
thousands of hours of testimony.
The average interview runs two
hours
and 15 minutes, with the record
n a huge tent on the Universal
length
of 17 hours held by a survivor
Studios lot, crammed with
in Israel.
advanced computer gear and
So far, interviews with 22,000 sur-
large television screens, Steven
vivors have been indexed and digi-
Spielberg recently unveiled his high-
tized.
tech master plan to transmit and pre-
By the time the remainder is
serve the living testimony of
processed, the Shoah Foundation will
Holocaust survivors.
have the world's largest multimedia
Hollywood's most successful film-
archive, with a database of 180 ter-
maker paused briefly late last month
abytes. By compari-
to review the work of
son, only 10 ter-
the Survivors of the
abytes are needed
Shoah Visual History
to store the entire
Foundation, which he
printed collection
founded five years
in the Library of
ago in the wake of
Congress.
the worldwide impact
Companies such
of his film Schindler's
as
Unisys,
which
List.
hosted the exhibit
Up until now,
and fund-raising
50,441 testimonies
dinner on the
have been videotaped
Universal lot, Sony
in 57 countries and
and Silicon
32 languages, he said.
Graphics have
A total of 115,965
donated
$30 mil-
hours of testimony
lion
in
computer
have been recorded,
technology.
which would take
As the digital
one person 12 years
library goes online,
and 10 months to
its content will
view.
become available
-"This is like the
via
fiber-optic net-
original dream corn-
Steven Spielberg: "We've proven a
work
links to five
ing true," Spielberg
point I've been trying to get Bill
repositories,
as .well
said. "But like all
Gates to understand. Technology
as
museums
and
dreams, you realize
and emotion can go hand in hand.
other educational
there's a lot more
institutions
work ahead of you.
throughout the world.
The biggest job will be to catalog,
The first link is with the Simon
index and digitize most of the
Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.
116,000 hours of tapes to make them
The existing material can be
accessible and user-friendly to
accessed by the center's staff now
researchers and students.
and is expected to be available to
Names, places and events in each
visitors early next year.
testimony must be cross-referenced so
Later, the network will be extended
that users can call up any segment or
to four other repositories, the Museum
topic with the aid of a 15,000-term
of Jewish Heritage — A Living
glossary of keywords, ranging from a
Memorial to the Holocaust in New
camp site, such as "Auschwitz," to
York,
the U.S. Holocaust Memorial
more subtle references, such as "aid:
Museum
in Washington, the
assistance in hiding valuables."
Fortunoff Archive for Holocaust
The cataloging is labor-intensive,
Testimonies at Yale University and the
requiring eight to 12 hours to process
Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in
a single hour of testimony. But with-
Jerusalem.
out this state-of-the-art index,
In a later phase, around 160 univer-
researchers looking for a specific piece

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