This week in 1996, film maker Steven Spielberg pledged $100,000 to Sussex’s Centre for German-Jewish Studies.

The money was from the proceeds of Spielberg’s Schindler’s List - the director took a moral decision to not personally profit from his movie about the Holocaust.

Here is an extract from the original article in the Bulletin published Friday 12 January 1996:

Sussex on Spielberg’s List

Film maker Steven Spielberg is to give $100,000 from the proceeds of Schindler’s List to the University’s new Centre for German-Jewish Studies. This comes on top of £150,000 already raised by the Centre in recent months with help from the University’s Alumni & Development Office.

From his first days of work on Schindler’s List – the widely-acclaimed 1993 film about a Nazi industrialist who rescued 1,100 Jews during World War II – Mr Spielberg decided he could not pocket any money from the movie, because he felt it came at the expense of the six million Jews who died under Hitler’s Final Solution.

“I could not take what I considered ‘blood money’ from Schindler’s List,” he says…

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