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Holocaust film
set to open,
the debate
over sacrilege
and sensitivity
continues.

TOM TUGEND
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

I n the face of death, despair and deprivation, the
Jews of the Vilna Ghetto maintained a theater,
an orchestra and even a cabaret.
Up until the final days before the Nazis liqui-
dated the Lithuanian ghetto and shipped the surviving
Jews to extermination camps, per-
Above:
formances were jammed and lent
Lionel Abelanski
the inhabitants a final fleeting
stars as Shlomo
hour of pleasure and normalcy.
the
Dreamer in
Even in the more typical Lodz
Radu
Mihaileanu s
Ghetto in Poland, which serves as
Train of Life.
the model for the film Jakob the
Liar, there were cultural pro-
grams, lectures and an underground library.
The players in the Vilna Ghetto cabaret and revues
often wielded a subtly subversive sense of humor,

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