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How Steven Spielberg became a Legend and Created Masterpieces

Steven Spielberg - Oskar Schindler

12. He Donated the Profits From Schindler’s List

Steven Spielberg founded the Shoah Foundation. Here is pictured with George Lucas and Lucas’ wife, Mellody, along with Harrison Ford. Jewish Journal.

Spielberg set up the Shoah Foundation (Shoah is the Hebrew word for the Holocaust) to enable Holocaust survivors to tell their stories so that they will be preserved for future generations. He intended for both Schindler’s List and the Shoah Foundation to combat ignorance surrounding denials that the Holocaust ever happened.

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