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Using the power of music to teach about the Holocaust. Highlights from the New Hampshire debut of "Kaddish." Using the power of music to teach about the Holocaust. Highlights from Keene State College and the debut of the musical "Kaddish." |
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Trying to understand the Holocaust through a new work of music. "Kaddish" makes its New Hampshire debut. |
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The Holocaust, painted by one who survived it. We meet Samuel Bak and learn about his work. |
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Hello, I'm Richard Ager in for Beth Carroll. Welcome to New Hampshire Outlook. In this special edition we look at two different examples of the healing power of art. We begin with Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead. It is also the title of an ambitious new musical work that had its debut in Keene in early May. New Hampshire Composer Larry Siegel wove together the words and memories of Holocaust survivors to create a work of rememberance and hope. "May the One who makes peace in the heavens, make peace for us, and for all Israel: and say: Amen." Kaddish words and music 2008 Lawrence Siegel |
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Music Soundup: Kaddish Rehearsal tape 1 1:24:05 1. Where We Came From - ** instrumental strains of old Europe for 10 seconds… Track: In telling this story of the Holocaust, composer Larry Siegel first evokes the years immediately before World War Two. It is an interval, full of small details of the lives that would soon be shattered. Music Soundup: Kaddish Rehearsal tape 1 1:30:50 - 1:31:29 LYRIC: I won’t say we were rich people. We had our garden, we had a cow, we had a horse, we had corn growing, we had - for the summer we planted food, we had some for the winter. - instrumental continues…for 10 seconds… Track: It was a time when the Jews of Europe coexisted - though often uneasily - with their neighbors. But never far from the surface lurked age-old religious animosities. Music Soundup: Kaddish Rehearsal tape 1 1:39:32 - 1:40:12 LYRIC: I had little gentile friends who were my friends Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Sunday they went to church and Sunday afternoon they would beat the hell out of me. And hate me till Tuesday. And Tuesday they would again become my friends. Track: Kaddish took nearly 4 years to create. It was commissioned for the 25th anniversary of the Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies at Keene State College. Bite: Kaddish Interview tape 00:20:37 WHAT IS IT ABOUT A NEW PIECE OF MUSIC THAT THE CENTER THOUGHT WOULD BE AN EFFECTIVE WAY OF GETTING THE MESSAGE OUT ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST? Bite: Kaddish Interview tape 00:21:13 Some people still don’t know that this occurred. And so it’s a way to spread the word among young people. It’s also a way to spread the word among audiences of music who might not be historians, might not have an interest in this type of story, and so we are educating them through something that is meaningful to them, through the artistic lens. And I think we’ve had a real nexus of different kinds of audiences that we’ve discovered through this process. Music Soundup: Kaddish Rehearsal tape 1 1:40:48 - 1:41:35 LYRIC: When we were on a train and some family was sitting next to us, we heard this, the mother say to the children: Behave! Or the Jew will catch you! In the little town where I was born, this is the atmosphere we had in Poland before Hitler came! Bite: Kaddish Interview tape 00:01:44 IT IS SUCH AN ENORMOUS SUBJECT, I’M WONDERING HOW YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD GET YOUR ARTISTIC ARMS AROUND IT Bite: Kaddish Interview tape 00:01:55 Well, I actually felt like I was quite well suited to do it because I spent a good part of my career creating works that feature first hand interviews and oral histories - I call them verbatim projects - and I’ve worked on these in communities and school and organizations around the country, but primarily around New Hampshire. Track: Siegel featured the plainspoken eloquence of the common man in his production of Village Store Verbatim. He did so by collecting and adapting the words spoken by regulars at a village store. Soundup: Village Store Verbatim tape 2:13:55 Muffin song Track: For the Kaddish Project, Siegel traveled to concentration camps including Auschwitz in Poland. His goal - to witness the machinery of death firsthand - and comprehend the sheer scale of the holocaust. Video: DVD Disc 10 13;08 Barbed wire enclosure Bite: DVD Disc 10 5:50 Guide explaining use of Zyklon B poison gas “It’s horrible to use the word efficiency - but …in this gas chamber, they could kill up to 600.” Track: Siegel visited the thousand-year old graveyards of Jewish communities. And above all, he sought out holocaust survivors. One of them was Naomi Warren, now living in Houston. Many of her words and memories became lyrics. Bite: DVD Naomi Disk 27:20 We celebrated all the holidays. My mother cooked - and the wonderful aroma of the baking challah. Music Soundup: Kaddish Rehearsal tape 1 1:32:20 We celebrated all the holidays. My mother cooked - and the wonderful aroma of the baking challah. Bite: Kaddish Interview tape 00:11:15 IT’S ABOUT A HUGE EVENT IN HISTORY, BUT IT IS ALSO THE PARTICULAR PEOPLE WHOSE STORIES YOU HAVE INTERPRETED… Bite: Kaddish Interview tape 00:11:25 Yes it’s them telling their stories. Almost 95% is the words of survivors themselves. The other words that are in there, there are names of some of the perished, there are a few biblical quotations, there are a couple of quotes, there are a few lines that I invented myself to weave things together. But by and large these are the words of the survivors themselves set to music, sometimes folk-like, sometimes harsh and contemporary sounding, sometimes at the end, very triumphant and celebratory. Track: As the holocaust unfolds, the music becomes discordant - and fragmented as the lives depicted in “Arrival at Auschwitz”. Music Soundup: Kaddish Rehearsal tape 1 1:56:27 - 1:57:13 LYRIC: I remember the opening of the doors. It was loud and fast and the whole tone had changed. Move! Get out! Form lines! And the smell…. Prisoners coming up and yelling Move! Get out! Form lines! Get in line! And we all got in line. Track: Kaddish is a challenge to listen to, and it is a challenge to perform. Bite: Kaddish Premiere tape 2 3:33:45 First time I read it, it’s difficult to read the text. It’s - some of the depictions are rather gruesome, they’re heart-wrenching and as we worked on it, it was easier to sing the text than it was to read it. When your mind is focused on something else, it’s easier. I think it’s a difficult piece musically, and emotionally because it really takes you on an emotional journey. Music Soundup: Kaddish Rehearsal tape 1 2:52:24 - LYRIC: Is my voice too loud? I am a Jew. Is my voice too loud? I wanted only a simple life, Which can never be taken for granted. We are the chosen, Chosen to suffer, God gives us wisdom, And wisdom is mocked; God gives us riches, and riches are poison, God gives us spirit, and spirit is flame! And spirit is ashes, Is my voice too loud? I am a Jew; Is my voice too loud? Is my voice too loud? Is my voice too loud? Music Soundup: Kaddish Rehearsal tape 1 2:14:18 - 2:14:40 LYRIC: Elisabeth Ouster, born 1909 - Livon, Poland. Died 1942, Belsen….died 1942, Belsen. Track: Perhaps the most chilling passage is the simplest: Music Soundup: Kaddish Rehearsal tape 1 2:17:00 - 2:17:15 LYRIC: This is a babble of names Track: The recitation of the names and dates of birth and death of 2000 - among the millions - who perished in the Holocaust. Music Soundup: Kaddish Rehearsal tape 1 2:20:16 - 2:20:25 LYRIC: Maya Tennenbaum, born 1937, Rotterdam, Netherlands, died 1943, Auschwitz. Bite: Kaddish Premiere tape 1 2:03:21 We light this candle in memory of six million Jews, countless other victims deemed unworthy of life by their Nazi persecutors, and especially this night for Tom Lantos, friend to the Cohen Center, advisor to the Kaddish project, and one for whom this candle’s flame was intensely personal. - Track: Tom Lantos was the only Holocaust survivor to be elected to the U.S. Congress. He died in February, 2008. His wife Annette, and daughter Katrina Swett attended the premiere. Bite: Kaddish Premiere tape 2 3:21:42 His last public outing was here at Kristal Nacht in Keene. He, in the last few months of his life, repeatedly talked about this experience. More than anything else, he had leaders from all over the world come visit him on his deathbed and the conversation always turned to what he experienced here in Keene. I think he sensed the spirit - Bite: Kaddish Premiere tape 2 3:22:48 But not just for the Jewish community. This is for all communities and I think that’s going to make a very powerful statement as it travels around the world. DO YOU AND KATRINA FEEL HIM HERE TONIGHT? Yes, very much. |
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Music soundup: Kaddish Rehearsal tape 1 2:21:40 - 2:21:01 Track: That theme - that genocide is a universal concern - is echoed in “Kaddish Prayer.” Music Soundup: 2:24:20 - 2:25:25 LYRIC: I think it’s important to find every way possible to help people recognize that this was happening and that it’s still happening, genocide is still going on today obviously in places like Darfur. And the role of a work of art, the role of Kaddish in this case is to inspire people to feel empathy for the survivors, for those also who perished, to feel viscerally what they perished. And my hope would be that they will then - our audience that is - will come out of a performance determined in almost a physical way to lend their own weight to trying to prevent future genocide. Music Soundup: Kaddish Rehearsal tape 1 2:27:05 - 2:28:27 LYRIC: It was a lesson that must be forgotten, It hurt me more to hate than to love, I had to reach into my heart, my mind, I had a long life ahead of me… Nothing is as whole as a heart which has been broken, All time is made up of healing of the world, Return to your ships, which are your broken bodies, Return to your ships, which have been rebuilt. Enter into your day by day living, Into your life as it is here. All of the things I’ve witnessed, I am blessed to be here, I’m very blessed with my family. I have a wonderful family. My wonderful, wonderful family… Nothing is as whole as a heart which has been broken, All time is made up of healing of the world, Return to your ships, which are your broken bodies, Return to your ships, which have been rebuilt. Bite: Kaddish Premiere tape 2 3;36:10 I want to just weep my eyeballs out - it’s so moving, it’s so emotional, it’s been the most emotional the last two weeks and it’s been the hardest piece I’ve ever had to sing because of that, because of the text. And so it’s very demanding technically, vocally, as you can hear. And I had to concentrate on that. And then last night, I started really listening. I was trying not to hear what we were saying. Music Soundup: Kaddish Rehearsal tape 1 2:28:57 - 2:29:20 LYRIC: So here I am. I went back to Poland, in 2003. Track: Kaddish concludes with Survivor Naomi Warren’s story of finding the courage to confront her past torment. Listen to her words repeated in song…. Bite: DVD Naomi Disk 01:05:40 **** all the way from Cracow to Auschwitz, I absolutely wept. I could not figure out how I would respond to coming there. And something that’s just incredible happened when we came to the gate that says Arbeit Mach Frei - it’s still there. And the posts of the Germans were still there. Music Soundup: Kaddish Rehearsal tape 1 2:29:40 - 2:30:27 LYRIC: And when we came to Cracow, and then from Cracow we went to Auschwitz, all the way I way I absolutely wept. So here I am. And we came to the gate, where it says “Arbeit Macht Frei” And to the posts of the Germans, they were still standing there. Bite: DVD Naomi Disk 1:06;30 **** and this incredible strength that came to me. I thought to myself - I am here. I survived. And look who is with me. It was such an incredible feeling. Music Soundup: Kaddish Rehearsal tape 1 2:30:55 - 2:31:23 LYRIC: I thought to myself, My goodness! I am here! I survived, And look who is with me! I am here. I am here. Bite: Kaddish Premiere tape 2 3:44:43 WHAT WAS YOUR FEELING ON SEEING THAT ON STAGE? Well, I was overwhelmed and I was speechless - and I just sat there, and I was shaking. And that’s what I can say. It was absolutely incredible. It’s such a gem of creativity that Larry has presented to us. AND PUT IN IT A GOOD PART OF YOUR LIFE STORY. HOW IMPORTANT DO YOU THINK IT IS THAT YOU TELL YOUR STORIES - THAT PEOPLE HEAR THEM? I think it’s very important that - not I but all the survivors - should tell their stories because we won’t be here for a long time anymore, but our stories have to go on and on and on. Track: Kaddish is the Jewish prayer for the dead. It is also celebration of life - and hope. In that sense, the prayer - and this music - are the same. For NH Outlook, I’m Richard Ager. Music Soundup: Kaddish Rehearsal tape 2 3:00:37 - 3:02:33 LYRIC: I am here! And you wanted to kill me, And you wanted to get rid of me, But I survived. So here I am. Here I am, Here I am, I am here. I survived, And Look who is with me. Look who is with me. Look who is with me. END OF SCRIPT |
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Kaddish will have its official world premiere in Minneapolis in November 2008. There are plans being developed to take the production around the United States and to Europe and Israel. |
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A Holocaust survivor interprets his experience through art. |
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Samuel Bak is a New England artist who lived through The Holocaust as a young boy, and later began to interpret it through his artwork. He has become known as the "Painter of the Holocaust" for his works which hang in museums and galleries around the world. I spoke with Samuel Bak during an exhibit of his paintings at the University of New Hampshire in 2006. |
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Bite#1: Gallery Talk tape 1 0:05:47 You look at these paintings and you realize that I am a sort of a storyteller in paint. Track: It is said that artists paint best what they know best. For Samuel Bak, that subject is the Holocaust. As a young child in Vilne, Poland, Bak survived in a Jewish ghetto while most of those around him perished. And through it all, he pursued his art. Bite#2: Bak interview tape 0:02:10 The town was bomb covered by dust, there was absolutely no food. My mother ran around with me looking for a teacher of art and we found this lady called Mrs. Saryvenolvich or professor Saryvenolvich who lived in this weird place and she looked at a few sketches that I had brought to show her and she said, “of course we start immediately.” Track: What started in that doomed enclave was the journey of an extraordinary talent surviving against incredible odds. Bite#3: Bak Tour tape 0:56:50 THE MOTHER AND SON, OVER HERE, I FOUND VERY INTRIGUING, BECAUSE WHEN YOU FIRST GLANCE AT IT, IT’S ALMOST LIKE IT’S A MOTHER AND SON ON A STROLL, AND THEN YOU PICK UP THE DETAILS. Yes, of course. You see that they have just been discovered, that there is a rifle that points at them and it is just the end. IS THAT YOU AND YOUR MOTHER? In some way I guess it is because I have survived with my mother, because my mother’s hand was always leading me, because of my mother’s care and love and her incredible courage. Bite#4: Bak interview tape 0:09:00 ** When you think about it that of the 80,000 Jews of Vilna, on the day that we were liberated by the red army and we got together we were two hundred survivors. Then you can figure out what were the miracles in this necessary that each one of us had accumulated in order to get to that point, can you logically explain this? Certainly not. Track: With the war over, Bak and his mother fled the communists and spent 3 years in Germany. EDIT OUT: EDIT IN: Bite#9: Bak interview tape 0:25:00 *** YOU HAVE SAID OF YOUR WORK, “MY PAINTINGS CARRIED NO ANSWERS, ONLY QUESTIONS,” I’M WONDERING THE BIGGEST QUESTION, HAS IT BEEN THAT OF YOUR OWN SURVIVAL? Yes, one of the big questions was exactly that, it was why me? And I have absolutely no answer. I only know that we all try to give some sense to our lives, and since that happened my answer was I produce all these paintings. Track: At first, Bak’s paintings were representational, but later, as Bak lived in Israel, then Paris and Rome, he painted more abstract works. But always, the early childhood memories spoke to him - and those images began emerging in his work. Bite#10: Gallery Talk tape 1 0:16:30 *** I was fascinated by old industry, buildings, old factories, their chimneys and so on. And so I painted ancient industries and after a year or 2 or 3, I looked at these paintings and told myself: ‘aren’t these the chimneys of the crematoria?’ Bite#11: Bak Opening tape 01;14:40 It’s a shattering experience, especially for me because I lived through part of this experience of his, so I have a particular kind of empathy and sympathy and they speak to me very loudly. IF YOU DON’T MIND INFORMING ME WHAT PART OF THE EXPERIENCE YOU DID LIVE THOUGH? I lived through the beginning of the holocaust myself, I was a child in Germany and I got out before the most terrible parts of it happened. So, to me this is, most of my family was killed with the gas chambers so that is a very living experience for me. Track: At one point, Bak narrowly escaped the Nazi order to kill the remaining children in the camp. Bite#12: Bak Tour tape 01;08:40 My father then hid me in a sack, and managed to throw me out through a window off the first floor to the other side, and then I found there a lady who took me to my mother, who was already then outside the camp, and we somehow survived. 01:08:56 So this very specific thing here is this boy with a pencil in his hand as always but sitting in this sack and there is of course this the boy and the other boys and they all sort of fabricated images of some kind. 01:09:17 ITS ALMOST AS IF THAT IS YOU WHO WILL SURVIVE. Right, and I will try to get into his shoes, and try to something with all these empty pages. ** Track: Also apparent in that painting - the iconic Warsaw Ghetto Boy - subject of a famous photograph. Bite#13: Bak interview tape 00:23:24 Well I must say that the image of that boy haunted me very much because I looked exactly like that boy. I had the same tiny coat, my knees were exposed, I had the same cap and so on, I saw this boy with his arms like that, I considered it a Jewish crucifixion. I knew there were a million children that were killed and I know that I am here. So I very much identified with that boy and I thought that maybe it would my duty to paint a million such boys, just to commemorate in a certain way the ones who have perished. EDIT OUT: EDIT IN: Bite#16: Bak interview tape 00:17:25 WHEN I LOOK AT YOUR PAINTINGS ITS LIKE THEY’RE PIECING BACK TOGETHER A WORLD THAT IS BROKEN APART. Yes, yes I think this is such a part of the human condition, of all people of all nations, I mean we come into life, we want to construct things, we want to create a world and the little by little some parts fall apart, and we have to come compromises and we have to leave with whatever we can put together and save and so on, and make it look somehow close to what we’ve would have liked to have. BUT WHEN EVERYTHING HAS BROKEN APART IN RAPID SUCCESSION, AS IT HAPPENED TO YOU AS A CHILD, IT MUST HAVE MADE IT VERY CHALLENGING TO MAKE SENSE OF IT? IF YOU DO GET PAST IT You’re right, I do not try to makes sense of everything, I am just grateful for those things that somehow make sense and can live with all sorts of things that make no sense at all. EDIT OUT: EDIT IN: Track: Though his images specifically evoke much of the Holocaust, they also can remind one of other acts of evil. Bite#21A: Bak Opening tape 01:25:33 * When I watched the twin towers burning, I called my wife and said ‘this is frightening’, because this is the painting. ….There is a painting called “Smoke” which hangs in the national gallery of Canada, and this looks exactly like the Twin Towers with all the smoke billowing up. And this was painted years before that catastrophe. Track: At age 72, having created more than 3000 works of art, Samuel Bak still looks to a future of interpreting the past. Bite#24: Gallery Talk tape 1 0:04:49 I am mostly interested in the paintings I haven’t painted yet. That are in my head. Track: Perhaps the most surprising aspect of Samuel Bak - is his resilient humor… For NH Outlook, I’m Richard Ager Bite#22: Gallery Talk tape 2 0:31:50 What advice would you give to young artists today to help them express themselves as best as possible? Bite#23: Gallery Talk tape 2 0:32:14 If it’s a girl, I would tell her marry a rich man. If it is a young man, I would say marry a rich girl. It is - it is a profession that should only be undertaken by the ones who are really hopelessly crazy. |
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A selection of Samuel Bak’s work will be shown at the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery at Keene State college from November 8 - December 7, 2008. |
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That does it for us. Thanks for watching New Hampshire Outlook. I'm Richard Ager. We'll see you next time. |
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Kaddish words and music 2008 Lawrence Siegel Special Thanks To: The Production Team at Redfern Performing Arts Center, Keene State College |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 6/8/2008 HOST: Richard Ager Length: 17:36 Now on NH Outlook: Trying to understand the Holocaust through a new work of music. "Kaddish" makes its New Hampshire debut. The Holocaust, painted by one who survived it. We meet Samuel Bak and learn about his work. Hello, I'm Richard Ager in for Beth Carroll. Welcome to New Hampshire Outlook. In this special edition we look at two different examples of the healing power of art. We begin with Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead. It is also the title of an ambitious new musical work that had its debut in Keene in early May. New Hampshire Composer Larry Siegel wove together the words and memories of Holocaust survivors to create a work of rememberance and hope. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Carolyn Insinga, Fred Kaen, UNH, Tom Levesque, Jr, Peter Henry, Jan Cohen\Exec. Producer, Kaddish Project, Larry Siegel\Kaddish Composer, Naomi Warren\Holocaust Survivor, Ryan Turner, Henry Knight\Dir., Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies, Dick Swett, Peggo Horstmann-Hodes\Soprano, Naomi Warren\Holocaust Survivor |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 6/8/2008 HOST: Richard Ager Length: 17:36 Now on NH Outlook: Trying to understand the Holocaust through a new work of music. "Kaddish" makes its New Hampshire debut. "Mabye will it be my duty to paint millions such boys just to commemorate in a certain way the ones that have perished."The Holocaust, painted by one who survived it. We meet Samuel Bak and learn about his work. Hello, I'm Richard Ager in for Beth Carroll. Welcome to New Hampshire Outlook. In this special edition we look at two different examples of the healing power of art. We begin with Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead. It is also the title of an ambitious new musical work that had its debut in Keene in early May. New Hampshire Composer Larry Siegel wove together the words and memories of Holocaust survivors to create a work of rememberance and hope. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Carolyn Insinga, Fred Kaen, UNH, Tom Levesque, Jr, Peter Henry, Jan Cohen\Exec. Producer, Kaddish Project, Larry Siegel\Kaddish Composer, Naomi Warren\Holocaust Survivor, Ryan Turner, Henry Knight\Dir., Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies, Dick Swett, Peggo Horstmann-Hodes\Soprano, Naomi Warren\Holocaust Survivor |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 6/8/2008 HOST: Richard Ager Length: 17:36 Now on NH Outlook: Trying to understand the Holocaust through a new work of music. "Kaddish" makes its New Hampshire debut. "Mabye will it be my duty to paint millions such boys just to commemorate in a certain way the ones that have perished."The Holocaust, painted by one who survived it. We meet Samuel Bak and learn about his work. Hello, I'm Richard Ager in for Beth Carroll. Welcome to New Hampshire Outlook. In this special edition we look at two different examples of the healing power of art. We begin with Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead. It is also the title of an ambitious new musical work that had its debut in Keene in early May. New Hampshire Composer Larry Siegel wove together the words and memories of Holocaust survivors to create a work of rememberance and hope. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Carolyn Insinga, Fred Kaen, UNH, Tom Levesque, Jr, Peter Henry, Jan Cohen\Exec. Producer, Kaddish Project, Larry Siegel\Kaddish Composer, Naomi Warren\Holocaust Survivor, Ryan Turner, Henry Knight\Dir., Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies, Dick Swett, Peggo Horstmann-Hodes\Soprano, Naomi Warren\Holocaust Survivor |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 6/8/2008 HOST: Richard Ager Length: 8:00 Now on NH Outlook: Trying to understand the Holocaust through a new work of music. "Kaddish" makes its New Hampshire debut. "Mabye will it be my duty to paint millions such boys just to commemorate in a certain way the ones that have perished." The Holocaust, painted by one who survived it. We meet Samuel Bak and learn about his work. Hello, I'm Richard Ager filling in for Beth Carroll. Welcome to NH Outlook. Samuel Bak is an artist who lived through The Holocaust as a young boy, and later began to interpret it through his artwork. He has become known as the "Painter of the Holocaust" for his works which hang in museums and galleries around the world. I spoke with Samuel Bak during an exhibit of his paintings at the University of New Hampshire in 2006. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Samuel Bak/Artist |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE OUTLOOK Air Date/Time: 6/8/2008 HOST: Richard Ager Length: 8:00 Now on NH Outlook: Trying to understand the Holocaust through a new work of music. "Kaddish" makes its New Hampshire debut. "Mabye will it be my duty to paint millions such boys just to commemorate in a certain way the ones that have perished." The Holocaust, painted by one who survived it. We meet Samuel Bak and learn about his work. Hello, I'm Richard Ager filling in for Beth Carroll. Welcome to NH Outlook. Samuel Bak is an artist who lived through The Holocaust as a young boy, and later began to interpret it through his artwork. He has become known as the "Painter of the Holocaust" for his works which hang in museums and galleries around the world. I spoke with Samuel Bak during an exhibit of his paintings at the University of New Hampshire in 2006. PRODUCER/REPORTER: Richard Ager NAME OF PARTICIPANTS: Samuel Bak/Artist |