Monday, November 6, 2023 at 4:00 p.m. in the Walter A. Slowinski Courtroom
Opening remarks by Stuart E. Eizenstat*, Senior Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP, and Chair of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council
Following the film there will be a panel discussion with:
- Sandra Schulberg, Filmmaker
- Eli Rosenbaum, Counselor for War Crimes Accountability, Department of Justice
- Hon. Andreas Michaelis, German Ambassador to the United States
(For law students, please note that attendance at this program qualifies for professional education credit.)
*Stuart E. Eizenstat - Senior Counsel at Covington & Burling LLP, Chair of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, former Chief White House Domestic Policy Advisor to President Jimmy Carter, former US Ambassador to the European Union, Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade, Undersecretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, Deputy Secretary of Treasury in the Clinton Administration, Special Representative of the President and Secretary of State on Holocaust issues in the Clinton Administration, Special Advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of State John Kerry during the Obama Administration, Special Advisor to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during the Trump Administration, and Special Advisor to Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the Biden Administration. He will be speaking in his personal capacity.
About the film: Adapted from Sandra Schulberg’s monograph, Filmmakers for the Prosecution retraces the hunt for film evidence that could convict the Nazis at the Nuremberg Trial. The searchers were two sons of Hollywood – brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg – serving under the command of OSS film chief John Ford. The motion pictures they presented in the courtroom became part of the official record and shape our understanding of the Holocaust to this day. Seventy-five years after the trial, French journalist and filmmaker Jean-Christophe Klotz returns to the German salt mines where films lay burning, uncovers never-before-seen footage, and interviews key figures to unravel why the resulting film about the trial was intentionally buried by the U.S. Department of War. Klotz’s riveting film also fills in the gaps of how these groundbreaking materials were sourced, and poses still-pertinent questions about documentarians’ obligations to posterity.
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