Stephen Smith
- Executive Director Emeritus, USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
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Expertise
- the Holocaust
- Holocaust video testimony and education
- genocide studies and prevention
- crimes against humanity
- memorial projects
- visual history
- video testimony as a means of prevention, memorialization and education
Additional Information
- Member, International Task Force for Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research
- Member, Order of the British Empire
- Recipient, Interfaith Gold Medallion, the Andrew Cross Award for religious broadcasting, and honorary doctorate of law from Leicester University
- Author, “Making Memory: Creating Britain’s First Holocaust Centre,” “Forgotten Places: The Holocaust and the Remnants of Destruction” and “The Holocaust and the Christian World”
- Founder, U.K. Holocaust Centre in Nottinghamshire, England
- Co-founder, the Aegis Trust for the prevention of crimes against humanity and genocide
- Inaugural chairman, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, which runs the National Holocaust Memorial Day in the U.K.
- Project director, Kigali Memorial Centre in Rwanda
- Trustee, Cape Town Holocaust Centre