Niños de la Memoria: A Film Screening and Panel Discussion on the Search for the Missing Children of El Salvador's Civil War

Film - Documentary | September 13 | 11:30 a.m.-1:45 p.m. | 105 Boalt Hall, School of Law

Speakers/Performers: Kathryn Smith Pyle, Filmmaker, Niños de la Memoria; Eric Stover, Faculty Director, Human Rights Center; Cristián Orrego, Director, Forensics Projects, Human Rights Center

Sponsor: Human Rights Center

Niños de la Memoria tells the story of the search for children who disappeared during the Salvadoran civil war. Survivors of massacres carried out by U.S.-trained Salvadoran Army battalions, many were “sold” into adoption in the U.S. and Europe. Niños de la Memoria weaves three separate yet intertwined journeys in the search for family, identity and justice in El Salvador, and asks the larger question: How can a post-war society right the wrongs of the past?

The films will be shown at 11:30 a.m. and the panel will follow at 12:45 p.m.

Event Contact: aberlind@berkeley.edu