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STRANGE VISITOR

When French filmmaker Claude
Lanzmann was shooting his monu-
mental 9 1 /2-hour Holocaust docu-
mentary Shoah in 1979, he inter-
viewed Maurice Rossel, a visitor to the
Theresienstadt concentration camp.
But Lanzmann didn't include Rossel
in Shoah. "For reasons of length and
structure, I decided not to deal directly
in that film with the extraordinary
subject of Theresienstadt, which was
both central and tangential to the ori-
gin and process of the destruction of
the Jews in Europe," Lanzmann says.
Instead, Lanzmann included Rossel
in the documentary A Visitor From the
Living (France — 1997), whose title
refers to Rossel, a then 25-year-old Swiss
investigator for the International Red
Cross. Rossel visited Theresienstadt in
1944, when, manipulated by the Nazis,
he wrote a glowing report about the
ghetto amenities for "privileged Jews."
When Lanzmann tracked down
Rossel asking for permission to present
his interview to the public, Rossel
wrote: "I am now in my 80s and can-
not remember very clearly the man I
was then. ... I think I am wiser or cra-
zier, which is the same thing. Be kind
and don't make me look too foolish."
"I did not intend to do so,"
Lanzmann replied.
A Visitor From the Living will be
screened at the Detroit Film Theatre
at the Detroit Institute of Arts 7:30
p.m. Monday, Jan. 31. Tickets are
$5.50. For more information, call
(313) 833-3237.

Comedy award nominee,
Gelfond, Joyce Gottlieb,
has been billed as "America's
Renee Gruskin, Gail
First Hearing Impaired
Kaplan, Richard Kozlow,
Comedienne." Her autobio-
Jay Lefkowitz, Sandra
graphical theater play, Don't
Levin, Stan Megdall,
Buck with Me, chronicling
Beverly Neumann, Robert
her life with hearing loss,
Schefman, Linda
paralysis and cervical cancer,
Soberman, Deanna
has won her numerous
Sperka, Dale Sparage,
awards and a guest-starring
Elaine Treisman and
GAIL ZIMMERMAN
TV debut on Touched by an
Stephanie Zack.
Arts C;; - - Entertainment
She was the focus of I
Angel.
The range of artwork
Editor
Can
Hear
the Laughter, a
shown will encompass
1991
Emmy
Award-win-
painting, sculpture,
ning documentary
ceramics, glass, photography and mul-
"My comedy disarms people, " says
timedia installation.
Buckley."
love to make people laugh,
An opening night reception for the
but
I
love
it
even more if I can teach
artists will take place from 6-8 p.m.
them
something
at the same time."
Thursday, Feb. 3, at the gallery. The
Tariff
for
the
evening
is a $100 dona-
public is welcome. (248) 661-7641.
don to Jewish Home and Aging
Services. Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle
is located at 269 E. Fourth St. For infor-
CATSKILLS
mation and tickets, call (248) 661-2999.

IN ROYAL OAK

The Auxiliary and Benefactors of
the Jewish Home and Aging Services
will host a fund-raiser to benefit older
adults 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 6, at Mark
Ridley's Comedy Castle in Royal Oak.
Titled the "Catskills in Royal Oak,"
the evening will feature a Borscht Belt
silent auction followed by a buffet din-
ner; dancing to the music of Rennie
Kaufman; and entertainment provided
by comedienne Kathy Buckley. The
wearing of resort wear is encouraged.
Buckley, a five-time American

STORY TIME

The premiere Jewish storyteller in
America, winner of the National
Storytelling Membership Association's
Circle of Excellence Award in 1999
and the author of five books of Jewish
folktales, Penina Schram performs at
storytelling festivals and conferences
around the country.
A singer, guitarist, composer and
recording artist, Gerard Edery is wide-
ly regarded as one of the leading inter-

REALLY BIG SHOW

The Janice Charach Epstein
Museum/Gallery at the West
Bloomfield Jewish Community
Center hosts the exhibition "A
Really Big Show: Large Works by
Michigan Artists" Feb. 3-March
16. The exhibit is a celebration
of art by 21 local artists in the
community and focuses on large-
scale works.
Participants include Eileen
Aboulafia, Susan Beiner, Ricky
Berlin, Bertha Cohen, Terry Lee
Dill, Deborah Friedman, Harriet

Claude Lanzmann's "'A Visitor
From the Living" screens at the
DFTonMo1 y.

preters of Sephardic song.
Schram and Edery will perform
together 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 5, in a
program titled "The Minstrel and the
Storyteller," at Ann Arbor's Temple
Beth Emeth, 2309 Packard Road.
Schram will provide the stories and
Edery the guitar as the duo interveaves
story and song from Jewish communi-
ties throughout the world in a pro-
gram for adults and children alike.
General tickets are $10.Patron tick-
ets, including afterglow reception with
the performers, are $36. Tickets are
available at the door or may be pur-
chased in advance by contacting
Temple Beth Emeth, (734) 665-4744.

SAVE .THE CHILDREN

More than 2 million children have
died in wars since 1990. The new doc-
umentary Children in War is the tragic
story of conflict told through the voic-
es of children of Bosnia, Israel,
Rwanda and Northern Ireland.
Filmed on location, the feature-
length piece explores war-torn neighbor-
hoods, orphanages, schools and refugee
camps. In Hebron, Israeli teenaged set-
tlers vow to stay forever in the divided
city, while neighboring Palestinian boys
attending a Hamas school fervently sup-
port the actions of the terrorist group.
The children struggle to heal the
past through art therapy and self-
expression, but their personal traumas
are the recurring themes of war and
terrorism: fear of death,
threat of physical injury,
destruction of homes and
displacement, disintegra-
tion of families.
Children in War is the
most recent work of Alan
and Susan Raymond, film-
makers of the seminal 12-
hour cinema verite PBS
series on the Loud family,
An American Family, and
Academy Award winners
for Best Feature
Documentary for I Am a
Promise: The Children of
Stanton Elementary School.
Children in War debuts
10 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 22,
on HBO.

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