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March 1-15 Holocaust Book Exhibit, Bethlehem Public Library March 3-April 15 Exhibition, Banana Factory's Third Street Gallery, Bethlehem "Rwandan Refugees: A Story of Life" by Lucian Niemeyer Opening March 3, 6:00-9:00 p.m. March 3, 6:00 p.m. "Bearing Witness: Art as a Response to Evil" A community event to promote tolerance March 9, 7:00 p.m. Lecture, Banana Factory, Third Street, Bethlehem "Rwandan Refugees: A Story of Life" by Lucian Niemeyer The Arts as Strategies for Survival: Theresienstadt 1941-45. This exhibition of art by the children from the Theresienstadt Ghetto focuses on a selection of drawings, paintings, and collages from the collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague. Also included will be work by Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, an artist who spent three years in Theresienstadt teaching art to children in the camp. Over 4000 drawings were created by children interned in Theresienstadt from 1941-45. This work is not only a unique and powerful record of the Holocaust, it is evidence of the influence of a teacher, trained at the Bauhaus, who passed on to her young pupils principles of modern art and design learned from her own teachers and mentors--Johannes Itten, Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, and Wassily Kandinsky. Numbers, and their chilling qualifiers -- approximate, estimated -- shadow our attempts to comprehend the Holocaust. Twelve thousand children passed through Theresienstadt. Fewer than one hundred under the age of fifteen survived. On 4 October 1944, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis accompanied thirty of her young pupils on a transport from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz, where all perished immediately after arrival. Gallery Hours: 11 am to 4 pm everyday except Monday. First floor only handicapped accessible. No admission. Opening reception: February 10, 4:30 p.m. Payne Gallery (610 861-1680). Art, Music and Education as Strategies for Survival. The two-day symposium will include presentations by historians, art educators, art therapists, artists, and musicians. A special panel will include a group of child-survivors who studied art with Friedl Dicker-Brandeis in Theresienstadt. Artwork of these survivors will be featured in the exhibition. Foy Concert Hall, Moravian College, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm February 10; 9:00 am to 12:00 noon February 11; $60 registration fee includes two lunches; $30 fee for LVAIC faculty and staff; admission free for students and survivors. Fax requests for symposium registration forms to 610-861-1682. Proceeds from the symposium and catalog will be donated to the educational programs at Ghetto Museum Terezin and Beit Terezin/Theresienstadt Martyrs Remembrance Association. For additional information contact, Jan Ciganick at 610 861-1680, Sara Dunn at 610 861-5111, or Anne Dutlinger at 610 861-1678. Music in Terezin. Includes works by Theresienstadt composers Gideon Klein, Pavel Haas, Viktor Ullman, and selections from the children's opera, Brundibar, by Hans Krasa. Foy Concert Hall, Moravian College, 8:00 p.m. Admission free. Additional support from the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley for the Concert is gratefully acknowledged. Call 610 861-1680. Film, Terezin Diary. 1990 Documentary, 88 minutes (incorporates footage from the Nazi propaganda film, The Fuhrere Gives a City to the Jews, narrated by Eli Wallach. Presented to the world as a model town in propaganda films, Terezin (Theresienstadt) was in reality an overcrowded, disease-ridden Nazi way-station for 140,000 prisoners including 15,000 children awaiting deportation to Auschwitz. Terezin Diary focuses on Helga Kinsky, who, along with nine other survivors describes the eerie paradoxes of life as children in the model ghetto. Although they were encouraged to draw and write, by the war's end, fewer than one in ten of these children was alive. Weaving together readings from Helga's diary with Nazi propaganda footage, the filmmakers present Theresienstadt's devastating story. The panel discussion will include three survivors interviewed in the film: Ella Weisberger, Helga Hoskova, and Anna Hanusova. Admission free. Cosponsored by the Payne Gallery, Moravian College, and the JCC's Jewish and Israeli Film Series 2000. Call 610 435-3571 for tickets. Meet the Filmmaker, Lisa Lewenz, who discusses and shows her documentary "A Letter without Words." During the Nazi ban on independent filmmaking, Ella Arnold Lewenz continued shooting reels of 16 mm film. She recorded Nazi rallies, visits by such notables as Albert Einstein and gatherings of her wealthy and influential German family. Until these films were discovered in 1981, director and granddaughter Lisa Lewenz knew little about her family's history. Structured as an imagined correspondence between generations, their film works simultaneously on a personal and historical level as witness, testament, and tribute. Free admission. Sponsored by Lafayette College's Friends of Skillman Library and Jewish Studies Minor Program. Rwandan Refugees: A Story of Life. This photographic exhibition by Lucian Niemeyer depicts those Rwandan refugees who fled Rwanda in 1994 following the slaughter of half-a-million Tutsi by the rival Hutu army and picked up the pieces of their lives. More information is available at Mr. Niemeyer's website at http://www.lnsart.com or call 610 332-1303. Gallery hours: 12 noon to 4:00 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, admission free. 6:00 p.m. March 3, Opening Reception. "Bearing Witness: Art as a Response to Evil." In conjunction with First Friday, a monthly Southside Bethlehem event, a group of community organizations and individuals have organized an event to promote tolerance, "Bearing Witness: Art as a Response to Evil." The group is seeking other organizations and individuals concerned about intolerance in the Lehigh Valley to join in the event. The program begins at the Banana Factory at 211 Plymouth Street in Bethlehem with the opening reception of the Lucian Niemeyer's exhibit RWANDAN REFUGEES: A STORY OF LIFE" at 6:00 p.m. A public Shabbat Service conducted by Rabbi Jonathan Gerard will follow at 7:00 p.m. and candlelight procession at 8:00 p.m. The procession will depart the Banana Factory at 8:00 p.m. and make its way to Lehigh University's Zoellner Art Gallery where HOLOCAUST PROJECT by acclaimed artist Judy Chicago is making its only mid-Atlantic area appearance. Both exhibits offer unique perspectives on violence, intolerance, sexism and anti-Semitism. For information call Rochelle Goodman at 610-758-6764. Return to list of events

February 10-March 5
Exhibition, Payne Gallery
Moravian College
The Arts as Strategies for Survival: Theresienstadt
1941-45

February 10-11
Symposium, Foy Concert Hall, Moravian College
Art, Music and Education as Strategies for Survival

February 10
Concert, Foy Concert Hall, Moravian College, 8:00 pm
Music in Terezin

February 12, 8:00 p.m.
Whitaker Lab Auditorium, Lehigh University
Film and Discussion, The Last Days

February 13, 2:00 p.m.
Foy Hall, Moravian College
Film and Discussion, Terezin Diary

February 29, 7:30 p.m.
104 Kirby Hall, Lafayette College
Meet the Filmmaker, Lisa Lewenz, who discusses her documentary "A Letter without Words" and shows excerpts.

March 1-15
Holocaust Book Exhibit, Bethlehem Public Library

March 3-April 15
Exhibition, Banana Factory's Third Street Gallery, Bethlehem
"Rwandan Refugees:
A Story of Life"
by Lucian Niemeyer
Opening March 3, 6:00-9:00 p.m.

March 3, 6:00 p.m.
"Bearing Witness:
Art as a Response to Evil"
A community event to promote tolerance

March 9, 7:00 p.m.
Lecture, Banana Factory, Third Street, Bethlehem
"Rwandan Refugees: A Story of Life" by Lucian Niemeyer

The Arts as Strategies for Survival: Theresienstadt 1941-45. This exhibition of art by the children from the Theresienstadt Ghetto focuses on a selection of drawings, paintings, and collages from the collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague. Also included will be work by Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, an artist who spent three years in Theresienstadt teaching art to children in the camp.

Over 4000 drawings were created by children interned in Theresienstadt from 1941-45. This work is not only a unique and powerful record of the Holocaust, it is evidence of the influence of a teacher, trained at the Bauhaus, who passed on to her young pupils principles of modern art and design learned from her own teachers and mentors--Johannes Itten, Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, and Wassily Kandinsky.

Numbers, and their chilling qualifiers -- approximate, estimated -- shadow our attempts to comprehend the Holocaust. Twelve thousand children passed through Theresienstadt. Fewer than one hundred under the age of fifteen survived. On 4 October 1944, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis accompanied thirty of her young pupils on a transport from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz, where all perished immediately after arrival.

Gallery Hours: 11 am to 4 pm everyday except Monday. First floor only handicapped accessible. No admission. Opening reception: February 10, 4:30 p.m. Payne Gallery (610 861-1680).

Art, Music and Education as Strategies for Survival. The two-day symposium will include presentations by historians, art educators, art therapists, artists, and musicians. A special panel will include a group of child-survivors who studied art with Friedl Dicker-Brandeis in Theresienstadt. Artwork of these survivors will be featured in the exhibition.

Foy Concert Hall, Moravian College, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm February 10; 9:00 am to 12:00 noon February 11; $60 registration fee includes two lunches; $30 fee for LVAIC faculty and staff; admission free for students and survivors. Fax requests for symposium registration forms to 610-861-1682. Proceeds from the symposium and catalog will be donated to the educational programs at Ghetto Museum Terezin and Beit Terezin/Theresienstadt Martyrs Remembrance Association.

For additional information contact, Jan Ciganick at 610 861-1680, Sara Dunn at 610 861-5111, or Anne Dutlinger at 610 861-1678.

Music in Terezin. Includes works by Theresienstadt composers Gideon Klein, Pavel Haas, Viktor Ullman, and selections from the children's opera, Brundibar, by Hans Krasa.

Foy Concert Hall, Moravian College, 8:00 p.m. Admission free. Additional support from the Jewish Federation of the Lehigh Valley for the Concert is gratefully acknowledged. Call 610 861-1680.

Film, Terezin Diary. 1990 Documentary, 88 minutes (incorporates footage from the Nazi propaganda film, The Fuhrere Gives a City to the Jews, narrated by Eli Wallach.
Presented to the world as a model town in propaganda films, Terezin (Theresienstadt) was in reality an overcrowded, disease-ridden Nazi way-station for 140,000 prisoners including 15,000 children awaiting deportation to Auschwitz. Terezin Diary focuses on Helga Kinsky, who, along with nine other survivors describes the eerie paradoxes of life as children in the model ghetto. Although they were encouraged to draw and write, by the war's end, fewer than one in ten of these children was alive. Weaving together readings from Helga's diary with Nazi propaganda footage, the filmmakers present Theresienstadt's devastating story. The panel discussion will include three survivors interviewed in the film: Ella Weisberger, Helga Hoskova, and Anna Hanusova. Admission free.
Cosponsored by the Payne Gallery, Moravian College, and the JCC's Jewish and Israeli Film Series 2000. Call 610 435-3571 for tickets.

Meet the Filmmaker, Lisa Lewenz, who discusses and shows her documentary "A Letter without Words."
During the Nazi ban on independent filmmaking, Ella Arnold Lewenz continued shooting reels of 16 mm film. She recorded Nazi rallies, visits by such notables as Albert Einstein and gatherings of her wealthy and influential German family. Until these films were discovered in 1981, director and granddaughter Lisa Lewenz knew little about her family's history. Structured as an imagined correspondence between generations, their film works simultaneously on a personal and historical level as witness, testament, and tribute. Free admission. Sponsored by Lafayette College's Friends of Skillman Library and Jewish Studies Minor Program.

Rwandan Refugees: A Story of Life. This photographic exhibition by Lucian Niemeyer depicts those Rwandan refugees who fled Rwanda in 1994 following the slaughter of half-a-million Tutsi by the rival Hutu army and picked up the pieces of their lives. More information is available at Mr. Niemeyer's website at http://www.lnsart.com or call 610 332-1303. Gallery hours: 12 noon to 4:00 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, admission free. 6:00 p.m. March 3, Opening Reception.

"Bearing Witness: Art as a Response to Evil." In conjunction with First Friday, a monthly Southside Bethlehem event, a group of community organizations and individuals have organized an event to promote tolerance, "Bearing Witness: Art as a Response to Evil." The group is seeking other organizations and individuals concerned about intolerance in the Lehigh Valley to join in the event. The program begins at the Banana Factory at 211 Plymouth Street in Bethlehem with the opening reception of the Lucian Niemeyer's exhibit RWANDAN REFUGEES: A STORY OF LIFE" at 6:00 p.m. A public Shabbat Service conducted by Rabbi Jonathan Gerard will follow at 7:00 p.m. and candlelight procession at 8:00 p.m. The procession will depart the Banana Factory at 8:00 p.m. and make its way to Lehigh University's Zoellner Art Gallery where HOLOCAUST PROJECT by acclaimed artist Judy Chicago is making its only mid-Atlantic area appearance. Both exhibits offer unique perspectives on violence, intolerance, sexism and anti-Semitism. For information call Rochelle Goodman at 610-758-6764.

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