Eric S., I refer to your comments concerning the slave sale re-enactment in Williamsburg and the resulting attention it got in the press, and not just on public radio, and to the comment on Schindler's list. And, I am sure I am jumping into what could be a firestorm...but... National TV coverage while not always to be taken as the most accurate indicator of the power of an event, did manage to show, via interviews with African-American people who protested this re-enactment, the emotional power of what the re-enactment signifies (at least inpart to this observer). There was a lot of anger and profound distress. No two people will ever feel the same about the airing of a painful and destructive past, not to mention the way in which it is aired. But, does that mean that well-meaning people should not continue to find ways to explore and learn from our common and often disastrous history? I don't think so. Eric, go see Schindler's list. I am sure that people who actually experienced the horror of the camps might find a commercial film trivializing. But what about the rest of us? We will, we hope, never go thru that firestorm but should we not attempt to find ways to understand it? Surely that film, that re-enactment,is not all there is to support understanding, but just as surely they work towards some measure of it? I think so. Anyway, Schindler's list is a great film, (however flawed) whether or not it is great history. It communicates by its power as art instead. The European holocaust is part of my personal history and yet I was absolutely stunned by the power of the film. I think I am not wrong in assuming that the re-enactment held a similar terror and power for at least some of those who beheld it.