In 1977, then Vanderbilt University Chaplain, Beverly Asbury, conceived what has become the longest running Holocaust Lecture Series at any American university. The theme for this year's Thirtieth Annual Holocaust Lecture Series?Broken Silence?reaffirms our long-standing commitment to expand the frontiers of our conversation about the Holocaust and other genocides by providing a stage for new perspectives, new questions, and for conveying those narratives that have struggled to find a voice or an audience. In these lectures, we will listen to the voices of victimized Jews as well as Kurds and Armenians. Their stories emerge as our stories because they speak to us and about every one of us. Indeed, we hope that long after the Broken Silence, these voices will continue to echo not only in these lecture halls, but within ourselves.