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SERVING NEBRASKA AND IOWA SINCE 1920 Vol. LXIII No. 21 Omaha, Neb.
28 Shavat. 5746 Friday, Fabruary 7,1906
SHOAH, 9^/^ hour film on Holocaust, in Lincoln By Publicity Department Sheldon Film Theater SHOAH, an extraordinary nine and onehalf iiour film on the history of the Holocaust by Claude Lanzmann, is showing at the Sheldon Film Theater in Lincoln on Feb. 22, 23, 27, 28, March 1 and 2. SHOAH has been acclaimed by critics as one of the greatest documentaries in the history of the cinema. Due to the length of the film, SHOAH is shown in two parts. Schedules and synopses are available at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. Advance tickets, go on sale Feb. 6 at the Sheldon Film Theater box office. Admission is $7.60 for each part ($5 for senior citizens, children, and members of the Friends of the Sheldon Film Theater). With all that has been written about the Holocaust, SHOAH is an extraordinary achievement. The result of years of research, this nine and one-half hour film is an oral history of the Holocaust that brings together a full range of witnesses: the SS officers who served in the death camps; the Polish villagers who tilled their fields within yards of the crematoriums; the Germans who resettled occupied Poland, moving into the houses whose Jewish owners had been sent to their death; the state employee who sold Jews half-fare excursion tickets to the camps — one way; Western scholars of the Holocaust. And then there are the survivors themselves: a Polish barber who cut the hair of women he knew were to die in the next few
ADiyCRC joins special program
SHOAH SCREENING SCHEDULE Part I: 4 hours, 33 minutes Part 11: 4 hours, 50 minutes Saturday, February 22: Friday, February 28; Part II at 7 p.m. Part 1 at 12^ p.m. Part II at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 1: Sunday, February 23: Part I at 12:30 p.m. Part I at 12:30 p.m. Part II at 7 p.m. Part II at 7 p.m. Sunday, March 2: Thursday, February 27: Part I at 12:30 p.m. Part I at 7 p.m. Part II at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 2: Panel Discussion uf Shixih at 5:30 p.m. Panelists: Professor Ed Homze, Department of History, UNL; Professor Bruce Eriich, Department of English Literature & Modem Languages, UNL; & Professor June Levine, Department of English Literature & Chair of the Film Studies Area, UNL. Regular Admission: $7.50 each. Part I & Part II. Admission for members of the Friends of the Sheldon Film Theater, senior citizens, and children: $5.00 each. Part I & Part 11. Tickets are available beginning Thursday, February 6th. at the Sheldon Film Theater box office. Cal 4725353 for further details or write: Sheldon Film Theater Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery University of Nebraska Lincoln, NE 68588
minutes; a 13-year-old boy who was to work in the death camp's special squad; the Pole who was taken into the Warsaw ghetto so
that he could report to the outside world what he had seen; a woman who lived in hiding in Berlin for moat of the war, in an-
Barry Switzer tapped for B'nai B'rJth stag
On Feb. 9, the Anti-Defamation LeagueCommunity Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation of Omaha, along with By Morris Maline Creighton University and the Archdiocese Oklahoma's Barry Switzer, "the winningof Omaha, will sponsor a special program est coach" in college football, has accepted at Creighton marking the 20th anniversary his first Omaha of "Nostra Aetate," Vatican II's formal den- speaking engageunciation of anti-Semitism. The 7:30 p.m. 'ment. program will be held at th"e Walsh Lecture Hall, located in the Bppley College of BusiHe will be the top ness. attraction at the 32nd annual B'nai Keynote speakers will include Rabbi B'rith Sports Stag Leon Klenicki, director of Interreligious Af- scheduled for April fairs for the ADL, and the Rev. John Paw16 at 6:30 *p.m. in likowski, professor of Social Ethics at the Peony Park. ^Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. Both men are authorities in the field of Steve Epstein, vice president, Catholic-Jewish relations. A reception will Henry Monsky follow the program at 9 p.m. in the Union Pacific Itoom, located on the lower level of Lodge, told the Jewish Press that the Reinert Alumni Memorial Library. Mr. Switzer's Both the program and the reception are forthcoming apfree and open to the public. Parking will be pearance practically gtiarantees another available north of the Walsh Lecture Hall. sellout for the annual event.
For the past two years, more than 1,300 attended the B'nai B'rith stag at Peony Park making it one of the best-attended sports events in the country. When the Oklahoma Sooners beat Penn State in the Orange Bowl, Coach Switzer clinched his third national championship in 13 seasons. His overall record is 126 wins, 24 losses, and four ties. He won or tied 10 Big 8 championships and finished second the other three times. According to Mr. Epstein, Dave Blackwell has agreed to return as master of ceremonies and Ira lYachtenbarg will head ticket, sales. Mr. Trachtenbarg can be reached at 3422805 or 553-3197. TickeU at $60 each also can be obtained from B'nai B'rith members. Avrum Greenberg is chairman of the 32nd annual stag.
guish at the fate of her people and her own escape from it. SHOAH is unlike any film ever made about the Holocaust. Ten years in the making, using not a single frame of archival footage, SHOAH allows the victims, the perpetrators, and the bystanders to tell their stories. It is through their words that the imagination recreates the world described in these interviews — a way of getting at the truth that is far more shocking than the depiction of actual images. SHOAH is unforgettable, and it is destined to become a landmark of film and history. "SHOAH is not an easy fdm to talk about. There is a magic in this film^that defies explanation. After the war, we read masses of accounts of the ghettos and the extermination camps, and we were devastated. But when we see today Claude Lanzmann's extraordinary film, we realize we have understood nothing. In spite of everything we knew, the ghastly experience remained remote from us. Now, for the first time, we live it in our minds, and hearts and flesh. It becomes our experience." — Simone de Beauvoir "SHOAH is not just one more film about the Holocaust. Its goal is unique, selective and single-minded: to describe in ruthless detail the inhuman bureaucratic machinery of the Final Solution during the years 19421944 ... There is an unforgettable sinister beauty to the footage Lanzmann took in Poland, and there is art in*^the way he has edited it... like refrains in a terrifying epic poem. Variety
SHOAH in Omaha The Cultural Arts Department of the Jewish Community Center, in co-operation with several Federation agencies, is investigating the [>ossibility of bringing the film, SHOAH, to Omaha in early May. Another possibility being discussed is a group trip to Lincoln to see SHOAH on March 2. .
Irving R. Levine speaks on Tuesday Last-minute reservations for the evening with NBC's Irving R. Levine can be made by contacting Kathy Walker or Sondra Rosenblatt at 334-8200. Mr. Levine, NBC News economic affairs specialist, will speak Feb. 11 following cocktails at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. at the Highland Country Club, 12627 Pacific Street. The event is being hosted by the Federation's Men's Campaign/Pacesetter Division. A minimum gift of $5,000 to the 1986 Men's Campaign is expected from those attending.
Omaha's JCX) wins four JWB communications awards NEW YORK — The JewUh Community Center of Omaha, NE, has won four awards in the 1986 JWB Biennial Communications Awards Competition, it has been announced by Alvin L. Gray, of Cleveland, chairman of JWB's Communications Committee. 'There were 334 entries from 90 Jewish Community Centers and U military installations," Gray announced. "This was the largest and most enthusiastic competition in JWB's history. 'This is a genuine tribute to all entranta for the justifuble pride they have in their Jewish commimities, both in the Jewish Community Center sector and in the military." A delegation from Omaha will attandkbe JWB Biennial, to take place April 9-13 at the Sbenton Convention Centre in Tbronto. Award winners will be publicly an-
nounced at a Media Showcase Thursday night, April 10, where Wolf Blitzer, Jeruaalem Post correspondent, syndicated columnist, author and PBS commentator, will be the featured speaker. In the Best Multi-Media Presentations division, the Omaha Jewish Community Center won for its video tape "Yom Ha-Atzmaut" which captures the spirit of the Israel Independence Dqy celebration at the Center. The Omaha JCC won three other awards: in the Best Public Service Annotmcement division for its promotion of the "Arts Program at JCC"; in the Best Special Events division for its "CbUd't Paaaow Haggadah" for pre-schoolers, and in the Best Center Brochures division for its "Faeas of the FMUN" program guide.
"The Jewish Community Center," Gray said, "is an ideal voluntary setting for Jewish education programs, among other things. It is also particularly attractive as a 're-entry' point into the Jewish community for persons who are otherwise not identified with anything Jewish. 'The enhancement of the image of the JCC in the Jewish community and its importance to Jewish life is vital. This the JWB Communications Awards Competition has accomplished." llw president of the JCC is Dr. Norman Sheldon. Stephen J. Rod is executive director. On Feb. 24, hie will become executive vicerpiasident of the Jewish Federation of Omaiu. JWB enriches Jewish educational «gMrienees as the laadsiship network and cen-
tral service agency for 275 JCCs, YMYWHAs and camps in the U.S. and Canada, serving more than one million Jews. JWB also provides North American Jewry with informal Jewish education ai¥l Jewish culture through the JWB Lecture Bureau, Jewish Media Service/JWB, JWB Jewish Book Council, JWB Jewish Music Council and Israel-related projects. At the same time, JWB is the U.S. government-accredited agency for serving the religious, Jewish educational and recreational netds of American Jewish military personnel, their itemilies and hoq>italiied VA patients. JWB is supported by Jnriah Psderations, the UJA-'Fidsration Canqiaign of Gnatar New York, Jewish CdminuoHy Ctnters and YM-YWHAs and JWB Aswxiates.