In 1994, Steven Spielberg founded and established the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation to record testimonies in video format of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust. Between 1994 and 1999, the Foundation conducted nearly 52,000 interviews in 56 countries and in 32 languages.
A VHS copy was given to each participant.
Participants are now faced with a problem: they no longer have a VCR to view their testimonials and/or their VHS copies are slowly deteriorating and no longer serve as a means to preserve their Shoah Foundation video testimonials. Most people don't know that manufacturers rate the life expectancy of video tape from 10 to 12 years (on a good day!). Every time you play the tape, press pause, or insert it into your machine you risk damaging the VHS tape at a great rate.
Needless to say, it is no surprise that families who participated in The Shoah Foundation video testimonials are scurrying to transfer their VHS tapes to digital formats such as DVD. Once in digital format, one can be rest assured that the interview testimonial will be preserved forever and passed down from generation to generation.
The Shoah Foundation participants can order VHS copies through the organization that is now based at UCLA. However, it can take a long time and be costly. We are happy to help those Holocaust survivors preserve their very important accounts by transferring their video testimonials from VHS to DVD for only a small material cost. We will take care of the rest. This is just another way we are dedicated to helping preserve people's stories one at a time.
Please contact us for details.
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