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…Cover Story ODYSSEY from page 52 But not forget. Since her retirement from U-M, Butter has talked to many student groups about her experience. She sees her life in stages. Born in Berlin, Butter says the first six years of her childhood were very happy and harmonious. Her father and grandfa- ther were bankers. To escape Hitler, the family immigrated to Amsterdam. But three years later, when the Germans invaded, the family was sent to Wester...…

…is pleased to announce A,p arhments the winners of our 2003 8services Eight Over Eighty Event! 'Lester Burton Leonard P. Baruch r rita Roth Drapkin Alan Kandel Irene Butter greets the Dalai Lama, who received the Raoul Wallenberg award at U-M in 1994. ing room that overlooks Geddes Lake. Though her mother was reticent, Pam says, "the Holocaust was in my genes." As a child, she remembers ask- ing her grandmother (Irene's mother) what hap...…

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…2003 Irl;Tm :yr ON THIS DAY we remember those who have fallen so that we may stand. ON THIS DAY we honor the sons and daughters of Israel, heroes who have given their lives, as well as those who live on, with courage and hope in these dark times. ON THIS DAY we gather in prayer for peace. Looking through family photos with grand- mother Irene Butter, Shirin Nazar says: "Savta [Irene] does everything for us. She's very special and we do ...…

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…INSIDE: U.S. Holocaust Museum Celebrates 10 Years . . . 76 Film Expert Comments On Holocaust In Film 78 A Roundup Of Recent Holocaust Books . . . . 82 Writer-director wrestles with God is new f Ed Solomon: 'I wanted this movie to live in that uneasy space between the secular and the spiritual. …

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…Entertainnte iwi At The Movies Solomon's Choice Writer-director wrestles with God in his new film, "Levity." NAOMI PFEFFERMAN Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles T he first images of Ed Solomon's thought-provok- ing film, Levity, came to - the writer-director while tutoring in a maximum-security youth prison in Calabasa, Calif., two decades ago. "One inmate kept a photograph of the boy he had shot, and he kept touching it, fingering i...…

…David Klein Gallery presents have more going on inside than they appear to, and I also seem to play loners and out- siders. "What I liked about Manual Jordan is that he's obsessed with get- ting forgiveness, yet he doesn't know if it's possi- ble to find redemption:" While Solomon says he was "terrified" on the set, it helped that Paroled murderer Manual Jordan (Billy Bob Thornton shared his Thornton) seeks atonement, tenuously befriending h...…

…Arts Entertainment Yom HaShoah Decade Of Achievement As Shoah museum marks 10 years, organizers' initial fears are long gone. ELI KINTISCH Jewish Telegraphic Agency A decade ago, on the eve of the opening of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., organizers had no idea how the museum would be received by the general public. Focus groups had been ambivalent. Experts recommended downsizing the building to accommodate small...…

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…Arts I Entertainment The Jewish Community Center Institute for Retired Professionals Presents Yom HaShoah ii Growing Genre As recent spate of films shows, . „ , . focus on Holocaust stztt thrives. TOM TUGEND Jewish Telegraphic Agency Wednesday, April 30, 7:30 p.m. Marion and David Handleman Hall & Auditorium D. Dan & Betty Kahn Buliding Eugene and Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus 6600 West Maple Road, West Bloomfield Featuring...…

…to help people and used this knowl- edge to destroy them." The Pianist by Roman Polanski, which garnered three top Oscars this year, for Best Director, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay, dramatizes one man s survival in Warsaw and its ghetto during their destruction by the German army. To the film's producer, Robert Benmussa, "The Holocaust was the (!Amen" Filmmaker Costa Gavras most important moment of the 20th century, maybe in all of h...…

…Arts Entertainment ,4 Yom HaShoah 4. 4& Q l , (#.me&44„ ur a A.. e GROWING GENRE from page 79 Polanski is continuing the tradition." There is widespread agreement that the spate of Holocaust-themed movies, though occasionally descending into "Holokitsch," has familiarized millions of people — many of whom would never crack a book on the subject — with the "Final Solution." One dissenter is Austrian director Andre Heller of Blind Spot. Poi...…

…UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY 8TH ANNUAL FORD HONORS PROGRAM Honoring The dilemma has been studied in considerable depth by Robert Lifson, visiting professor of psychiatry at Harvard and a pioneer in analyzing the psychological dimensions of history. "Hitler symbolizes pure evil and we would be more comfortable thinking of him as a non-human being," said Lifson. "Indeed, anything we perceive as absolute evil engages and fascinates us. To some, ...…

…s & Entertainment Yom HaShoah On The Bookshelf A sampling of recent books with Holocaust-related themes. SANDEE B RAWARS KY Special to the Jewish News 0 n the night of Kristallnacht, Nov. 9, 1938, when Gestapo agents came to arrest Dr. Seligmann Baer Bamberger at his Hamburg home, he wasn't there. As the uniformed men barged into his apart- ment and searched throughout for the teacher and Jewish community leader, he was on his way to th...…

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