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"Soul of the People: Commemorating the Shoah" Offers
Special Programs at Iona College
Art Exhibit Opens on Sunday, February 24 at College's Arts Center New Rochelle, NY, February 11, 2002 - Following the art exhibit opening on February 24, 2002 of "Soul of the People: Commemorating the Shoah," Iona College will host Gallery Talks with the artist Alice Lok Cahana, who will discuss her exhibited works in the context of her Auschwitz experience and the role they play as her voice in her efforts to educate the public about atrocities caused by intolerance. The Gallery Talks will take place on Wednesday, February 27 at 7:30 pm and Thursday, February 28 at noon in Joyce Auditorium on Iona's New Rochelle campus, 715 North Avenue. The Last Days, the 1998 Academy Award winning best documentary by Steven Spielberg and the Shoah Foundation, which features Alice Lok Cahana, will be presented on Tuesday, March 5 at 11 am in Joyce Auditorium and Thursday, March 7 at 7:30 pm in the Video Lecture Room of Iona's Arts Center. The documentary chronicles the experiences of five Hungarians who fell victim to Hitler's final genocidal push at the end of World War II. In the film, survivors journey back to their hometowns and to the places where they faced the Holocaust. Their eyewitness testimony and rare archival footage reveals the harrowing journey that meant death for millions and survival for very few. In addition, a film discussion So Generations Never Forget What So Few Lived to Tell, will take place on Wednesday, March 6 at 3:30 pm in Joyce Auditorium. It will be facilitated by Bonnie Samotin, manager of Programs for the Education Department for Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, who researched and co-produced the film with June Beallor. The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation was founded by film director Steven Spielberg to record and preserve the testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses. The art exhibit runs from Sunday, February 24 - Sunday, April 7, 2002. The art exhbit in the Kenneth Chapman Gallery of Iona's Arts Center is open Monday-Friday, noon - 5 pm; Thursday from 6:30 - 8 pm and Saturday-Sunday, 2 - 5 pm. All programs associated with "Soul of the People: Commemorating the Shoah" are free and open to the public. They have been prepared by a college-wide committee chaired by Provost Warren Rosenberg as a joint effort of Iona College's Brother John G. Driscoll Professorship in Jewish-Catholic Studies, Iona College's Council on the Arts and its Program of Peace and Justice Studies and The Frances & Benjamin Benenson Foundation, Inc. The Brother John G. Driscoll Professorship was established through the generosity of Jack '86H and Susan Rudin. This endowment enables Dr. Elena Procario-Foley, the first Driscoll Professor, to direct the study and celebration of the relationship between Jewish and Catholic cultures and beliefs. The Driscoll Professorship reflects Iona's mission to prize the values of justice, peace and interreligious dialogue and has created vibrant collaborations with other organizations such as The American Jewish Committee, the Archaeology Institute of America, The New Rochelle Coalition for Mutual Respect and many local houses of worship. For more information, please call (914) 637-7796 or visit our web site at www.iona.edu/artscouncil. -30-
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