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The hell of Auschwitz
The exhibit was compiled by Rich Ring, collection development librarian. He says he chose the photographs and art to be displayed with an emphasis on people. Thus, he rejected his original idea to highlight the exhibit with a photograph of a mountain of shoes taken from corpse at a concentration camp.
The exhibit is highlighted by a painting called "Angst," by Lea Grundig, in which a figure cows while birds and planes merge overhead.
"I felt the pictures of people were probably better," Ring says. "The Holocaust is about people. Maybe we had better show people."
Each case contains a part of the exhibit. One case chronicles the ghetto of Warsaw and Lodz in Poland, where Nazi soldiers forced Jews to live.
Another case shows life in the concentration camps, where 6 million Jews and large numbers of Slavs, Poles, Catholics, communists and homosexuals lost their lives. Ring says that each camp functioned with devastating efficiency.
or sometimes on the walls of the camps themselves.
"It's almost disturbing to talk about efficiency, but they talked about it that way," he said.
Frydman says he was sent to eight different concentration camps after he was captured in 1944, when he was 12 years old. He says exhibits such as "Witnesses to the Holocaust" help address a history the world would rather forget.
"The fact is, the world allowed this to happen," Frydman says while he looks at the faces behind the glass. "They could have done something, but they didn't."
The last two cases show art that prisoners in the concentration camps drew or painted on paper supplied by guards
The exhibition
"Witnesses to the Holocaust" will be on display until mid-December in the lobby of Watson. Watson is open from 8 a.m. to midnight Mondays through Thursdays, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Fridays, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays and from noon to midday Sundays.
The illustrations
numbers are issued upon arrival to be worn on shirt and also on trousers
The illustrations on this page were done by Alfred Kantor, a survivor of Terezin and Auschwitz concentration camps. Some of his drawings survived the war, but most were redrawn from memory after his release.
Source: Watson Library KANSAN
Play looks at political torture in South America
--for the National Student Playwrighting Award of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. If the play wins, it will be performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
Caran
Snitz, Overland Park
junior, a shadow player at right, holds for interrogation
Stacey
MacFarlane
Lawrence graduate student, who plays Maria Gellina, in the play "Graf Spee."
Melissa Lacey / KANSAN
'Graf Spee,' written by a KU student, has been entered in a national contest
NOVEMBER 18,1993 PAGE 9
The Sunday evening news program inspired Ken Willard, Hays graduate student, to write "Graf Spee", a play about torture in South America. "Graf Spee" is being presented this week by the English Alternative Theater and has been entered in a national playwright competition.
By Sara Bennett Kansan staff writer
It isn't very often that "60 Minutes" inspires a play.
Willard, a theater major, was touched by a segment about the fall of a despotic regime in Argentina. In one scene, the mother of a woman whose remains had been excavated was left alone with the bones. Witnesses said the the mother was seen caressing and kissing the bones.
That scene was the inspiration for the play, written for associate professor Paul Stephen Lim's beginning playwrighting class. Lim was so impressed with Willard's script that he decided to produce it for the English Alternative Theater, a four-year-old English department program that produces works by KU playwrights.
"For me, this little act spoke volumes," Willard said. "It wasn't just the death of this woman's daughter, it was the death of her country. I thought this on stage, if handled right could be very moving."
"In my four years of teaching playwrighting at KU, this is probably the best script to show up," Lim said. "That's why EAT is backing it with a full production."
"Graf Spee" will play at 8 p.m. today through Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Lawrence Arts Center. Admission is $5. Judges representing the Michael Kain Playwrighting Awards Program will view two of those performances to consider it
Lim said that although he hoped the play would do well in the competition, the real reward was having the script produced.
"The only way a playwright can grow is to see his or her work performed in front of an audience," he said. "The rest is just icing on the cake."
"Graf Spee", named after a World War II German battleship, follows the experiences of South Americans dealing with loss and picking up the pieces after the fall of a totalitarian regime. The play addresses such aspects of political tyranny as torture, denial and avoidance. Willard said the play's themes were universal.
"The nature of torture and how
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