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Page 20 THE SOVTHERS ISRAELITE September 7, 1979
• Lasogno
• Spaghetti
• Salads
• Sandwiches
• Deer b Wine
• Homemade Dough
• Sicillian or Thin Crust
BELLA
PIZZA
6435 Roswell Rd.
255-9122
Second time around
Impact of ‘Holocaust’ still
by Betty G. Cantor
Associate Director. Southeastern Region,
Anti-Defamation I eague of H'nai B'rith
On Sept. I0, 11, 12 and 13, the
National Broadcasting Company
(NBC) will rebroadcast "Holo
caust," the mne-and-a-half hour
dramatic production seen by more
people than any other entertain
ment television show in history
more than 220 million viewers.
In conjunction with the
rebroadcast the Anti-Defamation
League will reissue “The Record:
The Holocaust 1933-1945,” a 16-
page educational tabloid, which
has been used in thousands of
classrooms as a text on the Nazi
period. Over 15 million copies of
“The Record" were distributed by
ADL and other cooperating
Jewish agencies to schools
throughout the country and to the
public in mass circulation and
weekly newspapers, including The
Southern Israelite. (In time for the
rebroadcast, orders for “The
Record” can be filled by calling
the ADL at 523-3391.)
The program had enormous
educational impact with many
Americans for the first time
confronting the horrors and
magnitude of Nazi crimes. But was
the positive reaction sustained?
Without a doubt, a momentum
was established and ADL and
other educational agencies have
concentratedly pushed ahead to
see that instruction about the
Holocaust is systematically
incorporated into the nation’s
educational system.
A 100-page comprehensive
curriculum, “Teaching About
Prejudice. The Holocaust as a
Case Study," was taught the
summer of '78 and again this
summer at the Georgia Governor's
Honors Program, where 400ofthe
outstanding high school students
in the state gather for enrichment
studies. The unit was to be used for
three weeks. The students,
engrossed in the complexities and
challenges of the subject, requested
an extension for five weeks.
A conference on “Teaching the
Holocaust" was held at Emory for
teams of college faculty from the
South Fifteen colleges were
represented. Those attending still
remember with knife-sharp
emotion Dr. Jack Boozer’s multi-
media presentation on the “Art of
the Holocaust.” His readings from
children’s innocent poetry written
at Terezin, against a backdrop of
shattering paintings by concentra
tion camp victims, left participants
stunned in the emotion-filled
silence of their own tortured inner
thoughts. The Emory conference
resulted in similar programs at
Vanderbilt, University of South
Carolina, Armstrong State
College, Savannah, and West
Georgia College, Carrollton.
Actor Michael Moriarty
“The Witness to the Holocaust”
project at Emory is deservedly
receiving national and interna
tional attention. Under the
direction of Dr. Fred Crawford
and Dr. David Blumenthal,
testimony is recorded from
servicemen who liberated the
concentration and death camps.
There is a backlog of 200
interviews. For many the
excruciating memories had been
filed away, discussed with no one;
without the project, possibly lost
to history. Photographs, diaries,
letters, and memorabilia, never
before shared, saved for a proper
archive, have been contributed to
the project. Eight half-hour TV
programs were shown twice
weekly with an unusual focus:
liberators describe their eyewitness
accounts and the searing affect the
with us
experience made on their personal
lives. A particularly moving
program featured Atlantan Alex
Gross, a survivor of Buchenwald,
talking with black writer, painter,
poet W.A. Scott of the Atlanta
Daily World, who was a liberator
of the same camp. With
exceptional poignancy the camera
captures Alex, who had endured
the unendurable for so many
tormented years, consoling Scott,
overcome in relating his memories
of the day.
ADL’s L’Chayim Radio
Program, 10:30 pm.. Sunday,
Sept. 23, WSB, features a gripping
interview with John Glustrom, a
liberator, and Dr. Crawford.
At West Georgia College an
incredible seminar on the
Holocaust takes place. Interdisci
plinary, taught by a team-
psychologist, historian, sociolo
gist—it is graduate level with 50
students meeting from 5:30 to 9:30
p.m., for a full semester course
which expertly utilizes films. Alex
Gross spoke at one four-hour
session on the concentration
camps. Four hours was not long
enough for students to
comprehend the unbelievable.
They kept him with their questions
long past the concluding hour.
Cantor Isaac Goodfriend, Helen
and Frank Spiegel, and 1
addressed the topic, “The Effects
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AJCC —
Hashachar (Young Judaea)
1979 Hashacher Registration will be held Sunday evening.
September 16, 1979 at 7:00 p.m. at Plavland Roller Skating
Rink—440.5 Buford Highway, N.F.
Hashachar is a National Zionist Youth movement
cosponsored in Atlanta by Hadassah and the Atlanta Jewish
Community Center - children are divided into the
following age groups:
Of TARIM 3rd Ihru 5th grade Hoys & Girls
I SOU M 6th & 7th Grade Boys & Girls
KI SHF R 8th Graders
BOGRIM 9th thru 12th Graders
Meetings will generally be held on Sundays at The New
/-abah Branch of the AJCC. Hashachar offers exciting field
trips and conclaves, sports, crafts and fun. Hashachar is
lucky to have our own Shaliach from Israel!!!
REMEMBER!!;
DATE: September 16, 1979
TIME: 7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
PLACE: Playland Rollerskating Rink
ITT.: $15 Hashachar National, Regional, and local Dues for 1979-19811
year. (Includes T-shirt) These Dues must be paid in order for children fo
skate!!! Skating $2.25 includes skates.
For more information call — Joel Gross
396-3250