 I'm Liad Benabib, the director of the visual center at Yad Vashem, which is the digital film library for Holocaust cinema. The visual center basically is trying to collect all the films in any genre and in any language from all over the world. So our collection is now composed of 11,200 films, 200 titles, that could be anything from the big Hollywood productions through any fiction or feature films from Europe, video art, video dance, obviously thousands of documentaries, television programs and news magazines, anything that is related to the subject, even amateur films, and people nowadays are preparing their own films about the subject, which is a very interesting point of view and the way of telling the stories. Obviously the witnesses have a primordial role and the stories that they can tell us and they can bring us, and their perspective is very valuable, not only in understanding and trying to get closer to an understanding, but also in conveying important information that sometimes the big historians or the big history researchers are lacking that part of the personal and intimate experience of one person and for the spectator, for somebody who hears it for the first time or for the 10,000 time, it is important because this way the personal experience is sometimes the more direct way for a spectator to identify with that immense story that is incomprehensible in any other way. The personal commentary, the personal story cannot be the only way of examining what happened and it's a necessary tool maybe in trying to understand and grasp and really get closer to an understanding of what happened, but it can be the only way and it has to be cross-section with other tools of memory like photographs and documents and the historical research itself. So you have to be careful because the stories are always personal and the point of view is very limited to a one person experience so when you're trying to make conclusion of that story you have to know that you need to use other sources, other materials to draw conclusions from. How to avoid it? You have to be very, very analytical and you have to be very careful when trying to make any kind of assumptions or any kind of conclusions of a historical event. I think it's a complementary tool and you have to look at it that way. Well, history sometimes tends to repeat itself but every event has its unique characters and the characteristics of the Holocaust are of that magnitude that are an event that is unprecedented and although we see other genocides and we see other similarities in fascist regimes there is some singularities for each event and I think that this is the main thing of any researcher task is to see what is in common, what you can see similarities and you can draw some conclusions and see the way that these two events have shared some of their traits but also you have to be very careful and to identify those specific and unique characteristics of each event in order not to make a very shallow assumption and conclusions. If not it's very easy to fall into paradigms and to fall into cliches maybe and the main thing is to be very analytical, very critical in your analysis and to see what it is unique to this event and what can be duplicated in different settings. It's not an easy task and I think that everything that has to do with the Holocaust is something that we discussed a lot in this seminar and very deep. It's the way that you have to put things in context and sometimes as time goes by and we get farther and farther from the event there is a tendency maybe to draw into the most easiest conclusions and forget about the very hardcore facts and the hardcore special characteristic of an event and this is what is our task as people who want to tell the story for future generations. We have to be very critical and we have to be very precise in the context of the event itself and our conclusions from it.