"Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation, a repository of Holocaust testimonials, is becoming part of the University of Southern California's College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

Spielberg, the foundation's chairman and a USC trustee, said moving the collection to USC will ensure its preservation and access to the public.

All of us know that the survivors and witnesses have given us a precious gift whose wise use will build a better world for this and future generations, Spielberg said in a statement.

The repository's 52,000 testimonials from survivors and witnesses will be transferred Jan. 1 to USC indefinitely under an agreement announced Friday between the university and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.

Source: AP."