Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation Institute at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles is expanding its scope beyond the Holocaust to document survivor memories from other atrocities, USA Today reports.

After conducting 52,000 interviews with Holocaust survivors, Spielberg and the institute will now apply the mantra "Never forget" to more recent acts of genocide and oppression. After finishing the Oscar-winning Schindler's List nearly fourteen years ago, Spielberg said he created the Shoah Foundation with a "dream of a world where the memories of the victims of history's greatest crime could be used to teach new generations that hatred is not something we are born with, but something we acquire." At a gala in Los Angeles, he presented the foundation's inaugural Ambassador for Humanity award to Wallis Annenberg, vice president of the Annenberg Foundation.

Douglas Greenberg, executive director of the foundation, said it has begun discussions to enact programs focusing on genocide in Rwanda and Cambodia, as well as stories of life under apartheid in South Africa. "Our work on the Holocaust will continue," he said, "but we plan to join it now to work with others around the world. Our commitment is to combat [violence and racism] wherever and however we can — no matter who the victims are."