The event, the fourth Silberman Symposium in Jewish Studies, will explore, through a series of screenings and lectures, film's capacity to represent and misrepresent the Holocaust. The event, which is free and open to the public, includes films made before, during, and after the Holocaust. Few of us know very much about the Holocaust, at least not firsthand.
Film seems to be the most true of all representations, but that perception is an illusion.
A variety of visiting scholars and experts will give lectures, some of which will be followed by responding comments from a faculty member from Middlebury or another institution. In several cases, a film particularly relevant to the talks will be screened immediately after the lectures take place. Jessica Wiederhorn of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, established by the film-maker Steven Spielberg to videotape and catalog interviews of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust, will speak about her foundation's work. Below is a list of symposium events and biographies of the speakers. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary in 1972, and awarded prizes by the National Society of Film Critics, the National Board of Review, and the New York Film Critics Circle.