Steven Spielberg: 'The echoes of history are unmistakable in our current climate' [View all]

Source: CNN

Steven Spielberg had words of caution and hope on Monday while accepting an honor from the University of Southern California.

The Oscar-winning director spoke at an event where he was recognized for his work with the USC Shoah Foundation, an organization he founded in 1994 to record and preserve interviews with survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust.

Spielberg said in listening to the accounts of survivors, “the echoes of history are unmistakable in our current climate.”


Spielberg said radical views create “a dangerous environment” and lead to “a society that no longer celebrates differences.”

The legendary director’s words were as poignant as his films are at their best, so a full transcript of his remarks is below.

Celina Biniaz, 92, one of the last living Holocaust survivors from Oskar Schindler’s List, was also honored at the event. Biniaz survived the Nazi regime because her parents worked for Schindler, a German businessman who employed Jews to protect them from the Nazis. She left the Auschwitz-Birk

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