Event
The Struggle for Memory: Documentary Filmmaking, Survivors, and the Holocaust
Wednesday, March 14, 2012 14:30
Leacock Building
855 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 2T7, CA
What are some of the creative challenges and moral issues faced when making films about the Holocaust? Over the past 15 years, Montreal-born, Toronto-based filmmaker聽 has produced and directed three major documentaries touching on different aspects of Jewish experience during the Second World War. Using illustrations from his films about Kristallnacht, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and the Lodz Ghetto, Mr. Kaufman will discuss the special imperatives of documenting the Holocaust and preserving its memory in the few remaining years when there are elderly survivors and witnesses still alive and able to speak of their experiences.