deborah lipstadt teaches modern jewish history and holocaust studies at emory university in atlanta. she spoke to us about the importance of personal stories for remembering. >> the trials that took place immediately after the war were based primarily on documents. in the eichmann trial, gideon hausner, the attorney general, made a decision to call the victims of genocide. he called these witnesses to tell their personal stories, and they told their stories one by one by one. so people began to associate what happened during the holocaust, the final solution, with specific people, and in that way it put a human face on genocide. the victims had spoken before, but they had never had an audience the way they had it at the eichmann trial. the world was listening. i think it was the impact of the intensity, the idea of being in a courtroom setting, that the perpetrator was sitting there in that glass booth. i think all those things together gave what the victims were saying, what the stories they were telling, an added authenticity and authority. people understood that these people weren