Schindler’s List Screenings in Midwest to Benefit USC Shoah Foundation

Movie theatres throughout the Midwest will screen Schindler’s List Jan. 24-30, with proceeds benefiting USC Shoah Foundation.

The Parkway Theatre in Minneapolis will play the film Jan. 24-30, and Marcus Theatres, with locations in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio and Wisconsin, will play the film Jan. 27-30.

Schindler’s List tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved the lives of over 1,000 of his Jewish factory workers and their families during the Holocaust. It was directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Kingsley. The film won Best Picture at the 1994 Academy Awards.

After completing the film, Spielberg founded the Shoah Foundation to record testimonies of Holocaust survivors. The Shoah Foundation, commemorating its 20^th anniversary this year, now holds 52,000 testimonies of survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides. The testimonies were conducted in 58 countries and in 34 languages.