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HOLOCAUST: A time to remember
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Frydman recalled that there had been virtually no efforts in the 1960s to publish literature pertaining to the Holocaust. Today, there are countless records, historical texts and nonfiction works about the Holocaust. Some authors even take expressing the truth about the devastation of the Jews as a personal challenge.
Brian Dalderph, lecturer of English, put the horrors of the Holocaust into verse in a book of poetry called "Shadowing Mengele: Holocaust Poems," which is now available at Mount Oread Book Shop in the Kansas Union; Terra Nova Books, 920 Massachusetts St.; and Adventure A Bookstore, 844 Massachusetts St.
Daldorph's book revolves around Josef Mengele, dubbed the "Angel of Death" for his war crimes in the Auschwitz death camp. Mengele, a physician, practiced medical perversions on concentration camp prisoners.
"My knowledge of the Holocaust through education and classes was very broad and general," Daldorph said. "We just have this figure of 6 million, and I think what I wanted to do with the book was to look at how individuals were affected by the Holocaust, both the victims and the perpetrators. Poetry can do that somewhat better than history books."
Daldorph said he had wanted to bring the Holocaust to a more personal level through his poetry.
Daldorph said he had written his
"You have to bring something like the Holocaust to the public under the cover of
entertainment."
Louis Frydman
Assistant professor of Social Welfare
poems over a two-year period in which he spent a lot of time researching the Holocaust. Daldorph said the research had led him to fear that the present-day ethnic divisions of Eastern Europe could end in a modern Holocaust.
Steven Spielberg said in "Newsweek" magazine that his urgency to make "Schindler's List" had been spurred by the "ethnic cleansing" in Bosnia.
Frydman agreed that a tragedy such as the Holocaust could happen again.
the Holocaust could happen again.
"I think that we have such a hard time dealing with the Holocaust because of its immensity and because the people who were murderers were so much like us," Frydman said. "The
brutal killers of the Holocaust; they weren't hoodlums. They were educated, ordinary men, and their actions were orchestrated and controlled."
"In five or 10 years there will be very few of us left," he said. "Imagine if Spielberg didn't have the survivors to work with. What would he have done?"
Time is running out, Frydman said, and there is still a long way to go in understanding the Holocaust. Liberated at 14, Frydman is one of the youngest Holocaust survivors.
Frydman said one way to insure that the Holocaust would be remembered was to educate young people about its history.
The only class available at the University about the Holocaust has been an English class on Holocaust literature. George Kern, a professor at Kansas State University and a friend of Frydman, has taught an elective course titled "The Holocaust: A Destruction of the European Jews" for more than six years. Frydman said that the K-State class always had had a steady enrollment and that such a course would help raise campus awareness.
"There's this whole myth that it isn't fair, that it's cruel to talk about the Holocaust," Frydman said. "That's just not true. So many people were killed, and it's important to talk about them, to identify them, to remember them."
DRAGON: 25-foot-long reptile delights kids
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play and the audience is encouraged to root for their favorite character.
The dragon, a refined poet and tea drinker, is played by six actors who are responsible for different parts of the costume. The dragon, which is approximately 25 feet in length moves through the teamwork of the actors.
Angela Snead, Buckner Mo. senior, who plays the tail of the dragon, said coordinating the dragon's movement took a lot of practice. "We came in the week before the spring semester and practiced from nine to five everyday just to get the dragon working," she said.
Coordinating the dragon required coordination by the individual actors as could be seen in the work of Trevin Gay, Gardner sophomore. Gay simultaneously walked on stilts, operated the dragon's hands and spoke the
lines of the dragon.
The success of "The Reluctant Dragon" could be seen in the faces of the children as they left the theater.
Paul Meier, director, described the dragon as purely theatrical. "We made no pretense of hiding that the dragon was a fantasy. We wanted the dragon to be big so we needed more people since there was lots to operate."
"Yes, we had a good time," Elspeth said as her friends bobbed their heads in agreement. "They shouldn't have fought though," one boy said with an earnest look on his face as they began to file back onto their bus.
The Reluctant Dragon "will be performed for the general public 7.pm. Saturday at Crafton-Preyer Theater in Murphy Hall. Tickets are $3.
"It's sort of a tug-of-war between us and the audience. The more they give us,the more we give back.The kids really hated me today."
Kevin Saari
Ann Arbor, Mich., graduate student
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