The Jewish director Steven Spielberg commented on the war in Gaza, supported Israel and stated that he fears that history will repeat itself. Spielberg, who has been in the film industry for 50 years and directed the film “Schindler’s List”, said that “those who do not remember the past – we are condemned to repeat it, and I am very worried that we will be condemned to repeat the history in which we have to fight for the very right to be Jews.”
“In the face of cruelty and persecution, we have always been resistant, compassionate and understand the power of empathy,” added the director. “The work of the Holocaust Institute is even more critical now than it was in 1940, given the horrific massacre. It is critical to stop anti-Semitism and hatred of any kind. It is critical to our democracy and the future of democracy all over the world.”
The 77-year-old Spielberg founded the Holocaust Foundation in 1944. In recent months, she has been collecting testimonies from the survivors of the Hamas massacre. Spielberg, who remained silent in the first weeks after the fighting and was criticized for it, recently told Fox News: “I never imagined that I would see unspeakable barbarism against Jews in my lifetime.”
The Holocaust Fund is an archive for the visual history of the Holocaust. Today she works to locate Holocaust survivors, with the aim of telling the story and documenting it for future generations. Now, the foundation is working to collect hundreds of interviews and documents of survivors of the massacre. The fund circulates, among other things, in bases, kibbutzim, cities and in the Kibbutz Reim area where it was held for the party where it all started. According to Spielberg, documenting the testimonies is “an effort that will ensure that the voices of the survivors will be used as a powerful tool to deal with the dangerous rise of anti-Semitism and hatred.”
He also said in the interview: “The survivors of the Holocaust are the bravest and bravest among us, and their reports are a lasting testimony to the resilience of the human spirit. The two initiatives – recording interviews with the survivors and the ongoing collection of the testimonies of the Holocaust – seek to realize our promise to the survivors: that their stories will be recorded and shared in an effort to preserve history and work for A world without anti-Semitism or hatred of any kind. We must remain united and steadfast in these efforts.”