{"id":46320,"date":"2018-12-07T01:33:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T07:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=46320"},"modified":"2018-12-07T01:34:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T07:34:42","slug":"steven-spielberg-warns-genocide-as-possible-today-as-it-was-during-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/steven-spielberg-warns-genocide-as-possible-today-as-it-was-during-holocaust\/","title":{"rendered":"Steven Spielberg warns: Genocide as possible today as it was during Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>(JTA) &#8212; Steven Spielberg, the Oscar-winning director of the Holocaust film &#8220;Schindler&#8217;s List,&#8221; has a warning: The possibility of hate leading to genocide is as possible today as it was during the Holocaust.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Spielberg in an interview with NBC\u2019s Lester Holt specifically identified the mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue building in Pittsburgh as a signal of the rise&nbsp;in hateful ideologies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When collective hate organizes and gets industrialized, then genocide follows,&#8221; Spielberg said in the interview aired Wednesday. &#8220;We have to take it more seriously today than I think we have had to take it in a generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The interview marks the return to a select number of theaters of &#8220;Schindler&#8217;s List&#8221; for its 25th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there is more at stake today than even back then,&#8221; when the movie was released in 1993, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The film tells the story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman whose efforts to employ Jews during the Holocaust saved over 1,000 people. It won seven Oscars, including for best picture and best director.<\/p>\n<p>The film, shot in Poland,&nbsp;led to Spielberg founding the USC Shoah Foundation, which videotapes interviews with Holocaust survivors and now contains testimony from more than 55,000 survivors and witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll ever do anything as important,&#8221; Spielberg said of the film in the NBC interview. &#8220;So this, for me, is something that I will always be proudest of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Steven%20Spielberg%20warns%3A%20Genocide%20as%20possible%20today%20as%20it%20was%20during%20Holocaust\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139,25],"tags":[9329,440,2393,8794,9740,8829],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46321,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46320\/revisions\/46321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}