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Holocaust remembrance opens
with film series
The International Film Series on Thursday
(March 24) will feature “Train de Vie (Train of
Life),” the first of four Holocaust-related films
leading up to a two-week visit by a German scholar in
late April and early May.
Dr. Norbert Kampe, director of the House of the Wannsee
Conference Memorial and Educational Site in Berlin,
will discuss the significance of the conference and
the tragedy of the Holocaust during appearances at BGSU
and elsewhere in northwest Ohio, beginning April 25.
The Wannsee Conference was the January 1942 meeting
at which high-ranking representatives of the Nazi Party,
German governmental ministries and the SS discussed
cooperation in the “Final Solution”—the
planned deportation and murder of all European Jews.
Kampe is the featured guest scholar for “Deadly
Discrimination: Re-viewing the ‘Final Solution’
and its Consequences,” a collaborative project
between BGSU and the Ruth Fajerman Markowicz Holocaust
Resource Center in Sylvania. His visit will include
discussions in Bowling Green, Findlay, Sylvania and,
on Holocaust Remembrance Day, May 6, at Toledo’s
McMaster Center. There, he will address an expected
250 northwest Ohio high school students at the Mayor’s
Diversity Breakfast.
Also among the project events is an April 26 performance
of “Tikvah: A Concert of Hope and Remembrance,”
an oratorio by Dr. Burton Beerman, music composition.
Kampe will introduce the multimedia production with
Philip Markowicz, a Sylvania resident and Holocaust
survivor who inspired Beerman to compose “Tikvah”
(“Hope”). The 7:30 p.m. performance is set
for Bryan Recital Hall in the Moore Musical Arts Center.
All showing at 7:30 p.m. in the Gish Film Theater, the
Holocaust-related films preceding Kampe’s visit
are, after “Train de Vie,” “Rosenstrasse”
on March 31, “Musíme si pomáhat
(Divided We Fall)” on April 7 and “Amen”
on April 14.
On April 28, Kampe will introduce “The Wannsee
Conference,” a 2002 German film that reenacts,
on location, the Jan. 20, 1942, meeting. A question-and-answer
period will follow the presentation, also part of the
International Film Series.
More details about the remembrance project and related
events will be forthcoming in Monitor in April.
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