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"(The troop movements) pose
something of a threat to Israel,
but the level of danger is not the
same as it was four years ago," he
said.
Sanctions imposed upon Iraq
after the war in 1991 have great-
ly weakened the Iraqi economy
and thus the loyalty of the Iraqi
people to their leader, Saddam
Hussein. Ethnic unrest between
the Kurds and the Shiites have
further eroded his power, Dr.
Pearson said.
But for people like Raviv
Schwartz, an Israeli resident and
graduate student at the Univer-
sity of Michigan, the weakened
Iraqi force means little when a
siren sounds. It causes chills to
race down his spine.
Mr. Schwartz, an intern at the
Jewish Community Council, can
still recall the sound of a Scud
missile falling 300 meters from
his home near Tel Aviv. He fears
that if tensions escalate, reactions
will be different this time.
"Just as Saddam should not
expect the United States to be-
have passively, so should he not
expect Israel to behave passive-
ly," he said, noting that Israel re-
strained its response as the
United States requested in 1991.
"I don't think Israel could heed
that call this time." ❑
Radio Show Makes
Leap To The Stage
.
A Holocaust play will be staged
free in Dearborn.
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here is not much to the play
Remnants. There are no
elaborate sets to boggle the
mind, no orchestral move-
ments to stir the soul.
But to those who perform it
and those who watch it, it is as
memorable and as moving as oth-
er major Holocaust works.
"It resonates with me," said
Maria Orlowski, an actress in the
play and a Holocaust survivor. "I
find it fulfilling each time I per-
form. To me, it is like a memori-
al to my family."
Remnants, along with a new
work by the same author, will be
performed 8 p.m. Oct. 23 at the
Pool, a building on the Univer-
sity of Michigan-Dearborn cam-
pus. Sponsored by the Holocaust
Education Coalition and the Stu-
dent Activities Board of the Uni-
versity of Michigan-Dearborn, the
performance is free.
Written by University of
Michigan professor Dr. Hank
Greenspan, the work is known
mainly as a radio piece. He adapt-
ed it to the stage and it has been
performed in Milwaukee, New
York and Nantucket, Mass.
"It is the simplest stage per-
formance there can be. There is
no dancing, little movement and
no complicated lighting," he said,
"but something about it makes
people think. It is a very reflec-
tive piece."
The work is renowned in Jew-
ish circles. In fact, the Yad
Vashem Holocaust memorial in-
vited the group to perform next
summer.
"We always say, 'Next year in
Jerusalem,' but who knew?" Dr.
Greenspan said.
The award-winning radio piece
came from interviews he con-
ducted while working on his doc-
toral dissertation on Holocaust
survivors. He constructed the
roles for the six soliloquies using
different anecdotes taken from
the survivor interviews.
The actors relate personal ex-
periences on an empty stage. The
character played by Ms. Orlows-
ki tells of the woman who cleaned
latrines in the concentration
camps. The woman broke apart
boxes and made a vanity for her-
self.
"Does it inspire your hope or
your revulsion that the attendant
in the toilets of Hell made a place
to put on her makeup?" her char-
acter asks.
Remnants gains
international
attention
for Holocaust.
Bystanders, the second work
to be presented Oct. 23, has been
gleaned from several interviews.
The play, written with U-M Pro-
fessor George Rosenwald, will fo-
cus on the reaction to the
Holocaust of neighbors and coun-
trymen who witnessed the atroc-
ities but were neither
perpetrators nor victims.
In addition to the plays, a pi-
ano piece was written for the pro-
gram. Prior to the showing of the
plays, Gabriel Bolkosky will per-
form the unnamed work he com-
posed. ❑
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