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Show 14E The Salt Lake Tribune Rare exhibit shows art from Holocaust Sunday, November 27, 1983 By Joyce Gemperlein Writer The other day WASHINGTON Arnost Lustig saw three small a heart, a woodthings on a string en shoe and a four-lea- f clover, all carved from fruit pits. He trembled. It is profound what those things show. You cannot kill life, he said. You can send people to concentration camps and they still will think, they still will feel love and know that there is a world outside. Lustigs reverie and his rhetoric about the durability of the human spirit arose from the necklace of a souvenir, really, of a charms terrible time in his life. It was fashioned in a concentration camp during the Holocaust Lustig and his wife Vera were imprisoned in such a camp as children and many of their relatives died there. With more joy than sorrow, the Lustigs will leave their Northwest Washington apartment this week to attend the opening of two major and unprecedented exhibitions of Judaic treasures that, like them, survived the Holocaust. The necklace is being displayed in one of the exhibitions. At the Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History, a prized collection entitled The Precious Legacy: Judaic Treasures from the Czechoslovak State Collections, will be unveiled on Wednesday. The event has been 15 years in the making, requiring long and tedious bargaining with the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, which was protective of the treasures and not used to loaning items from its museums. Organizers of the exhibition say busloads of visitors already have announced their intentions to see the artifacts during their stay in Washington. On Jan. 1, 1984, the exhibition y road tour. will begin a Smithsonian officials expect that millions of visitors will view it durtour of museums ing its two-yeKnight-Rldde- Alex and Edgar Krueger posed for this photograph around 1900, showing how their family dealt with changing needs of a successful farm in Waterton, Wis. It is part of an exhibit at Utah State Historical Society now through January. purportedly the first musical works ever composed in America. His vocal style and method of composition ut'lized schematic part harmonies freely following the rhythm of the hymns ext. German nobel-priz- e winning poet Thomas Mann described them in his novel, Doctor Faustus, as music which rang down into the soul and was nothing more or less than a foretaste of heaven. Beissel, who composed over 1,000 hymns, founded the protestant Cloister Ephrata of the Seventh Day Baptists, which became known as one of the finest cultural centers of colonial America. Between 1745 and 200 religious 1800, approximately books and song collections were printed in Ephrata with several of them decorated by hand with medieval miniaturist paintings. Ephrata is now a museum, operated by the state of Pennsylvania. The public is invited to attend the Saturday finale free of charge. - across the United States. Traveling with it will be part of another prized collection that also opens here Wednesday at the Bnai Brith Klutz-nic-k Museum. This companion exhibition features drawings by children and adults condemned to death at Tere-zi- n concentration camp. Much of the art was found hidden in floorboards at the camp after the war. The artwork exhibition, including the necklace that enchanted Lustig, is taken from the same Czech museum and the Leo Baeck Institute in New York City. Most of the artwork has never been shown to the public. Because of its fragility, it has not been exposed to light for decades, a museum spokeswoman said. The main exhibition at the Smithsonian includes more than 350 objects from the worlds largest and most important collections of everyday household goods and rare ceremonial and folk art confiscated from Jews in Moravia, Bohemia and other parts of Europe by the Nazis. While the humans were being shipped to gas chambers, the leaders of the Third Reich were perversely attempting to create a museum to document the rich, vast historical and artistic importance of a people they intended to exterminate. six-cit- German theater offers finale The final event of the German-America- n Tricentennial celebration in Utah will be held Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Art Barn gallery, Reservoir Park and Finch Lane. The German Theatre of Salt Lake City will present a reading in German entitled German Authors about America, featuring among o.hers, the writings of Ingrid Sulich, currently a resident of this city. The evening will also include a performance of hymns from the Cloister Ephrata by the University of Utah Ad Hoc Singers. According to the sponsors of the event, the spiritual songs of German immigrant Conrad Beissel were r ar Smithsonian artists have erations, spent 1 years negotiating with the Czechoslovakian government to persuade it to loan the items. Talisman said the Smithsonians presentation of the treasures is fifty times more beautiful and touching than he had imagined it would fcbf Salt mt Sriboiu be. In 1942, Hitlers officers distorted tig on her 16th birthday while at She wrote of blue Thereisienstadt. the purpose of an existing Jewish museum in Prague. They filled eight skies and orange blossoms and buildings in the Jewish quarter with imagined that she had wings to fly items they had ordered condemned away from the camp. Jews to turn over to the Nazis before Lustig noted that while the items were in Czechoslovakia thev were they were deported. seen by few people. After the war, the Jewish commuto not could afford in Prague nity Being in America, it will be seen maintain the museum and donated by millions of Americans so that it to the government things that were designed by Hitler The collection of artwork at the to be a testimony of the dead will gain their own life and their will Klutznik Museum is especially imis his wife. He to and speak of the beautiful life of dead portant Lustig Jews, and for the living. a professor of literature at American University and the author of And that, Lustig said, is the triseveral books about the people who umph, the absolute triumph. lived in concentration camps. (The exhibit will be taken to the It is no less important to his ailing Bass Museum of Art in Miami 18; The Jewish mother, Theresa, who also survived Beach, Jan. a series of concentration camps. The Museum in New York City, A pril three are among only 15,000 Jews 26; the San Diego Museum of who survived Terezin, also known as Art, Sept. 11; the Detroit InThereisienstadt. About 100,000 are stitute of Arts, March 5, known to have been sent there. 1985, and the Wadsworth Anthen-euin Hartford, Conn., June The Bnai Brith exhibition includes a poem written by Vera Lus- - 29.) m 23-Jul-y ar- ranged the borrowed items in the Evans Gallery in a facsimile of the famous Jewish Quarter in Prague, a centuries-ol- d community of homes, schools and synagogues. Visitors to the exhibition will adarches vance through granite-lik-e into sections that create the atmosphere of Prague with large photomurals. The artifacts are placed in that setting in a time-lin- e through history from the Middle Ages to the Holocaust. Mark Talisman, vice chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council and director of the Washington Office of the Council of Jewish Fed Childrens Theater Fest A Childrens Theater Festival will be offered Saturday through Dec. 17 by the Bountiful Community Theater, featuring the works of eight different childrens drama groups. All productions will be offered in the new Bountiful Community Theater Playhouse In the Five Points Shopping Center in Bountiful. Participating groups will come from the Davis County High School as well as community drama groups, including the YWCA Childrens Drama Workshop The opening play will be How Santa Got His Elves, directed by Olive Hodson and presented Saturday at 2 and 4 p.m. Other directors to be featured during the festival include Carol Hutcheson, Raelynne Goforth, Sherri Cole, Bonni Hobbs, Ann Lalli and Evelyn Neville. Performances will continue weekdays at 4:30 and 6:30 p.m., Saturdays at 2 and 4 p.m., and on Dec. 10 at 8 p.m. Tickets are $1. 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