Bill Clinton to be honored by Spielberg's Shoah Foundation

The Shoah Foundation founded by Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg will honor the former US president Bill Clinton with its "Ambassador for Humanity" award. It honors individuals promoting tolerance and understanding and will be presented to Clinton in Los Angeles in February 2005. “President Clinton’s leadership around the world in the struggle against racial, ethnic and religious bigotry accords perfectly with the Shoah Foundation’s mission and makes him an ideal recipient of our annual award,” Spielberg said in a statement. The 10-year-old foundation has collected 52,000 videotaped interviews with survivors of the Holocaust living in 56 countries.