| Show c. c A Darker Side of Olympic History The University of Utah is hosting an eye opening exhibit through March By Colleen Tanner Staff Writer The University of Utah Marriott Library is hosting a traveling exhibit titled The Nazi Olympics The exhibit is on loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum i in n Washington DC D.C. It opened on Sept 12 2001 and will remain f We have the desire to send r the exhibit all allover allover over the nation to make our message more accessible to the public LAUREN KAMINSKY DIRECTOR OF TRAVELING EXHIBITS until March 22 2002 The exhibit is located on the third floor of the library near the circulation circulation circulation cir cir- desk admittance is free but donations are accepted The exhibit t was created in 1996 to commemorate the anniversary of the Modem Modern Olympics and the anniversary anniversary anniversary sary of the 1936 Berlin Olympics The first year it remained in the museum as an addition to the central exhibit But since 1997 it has traveled to tol l 10 different cities including San Diego and ST. ST Louis We have the desire to send the exhibit all over the nation nation- to make our message more accessible to the public said the Director of Traveling Exhibits Lauren Kaminsky This is a piece of our museum and a memorial to the victims of ofa a tragedy The exhibit focuses primarily primarily primarily marily on the events leading up to and surrounding the 1936 Summer Olympics hosted in Berlin The games were awarded award award- ed to Germany in 1931 before Hitler came to power but two years later he surfaced as the new leader of the German Gennan peo peo- The world was leery of him and his Semitic anti-Semitic ideologies but few backed out of the event The drive behind the exhibit is not just to recap the games and tragedies which followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed in the form fonn of racial cleansing the designers wanted to remind those who visited about the repercussions of hate and prejudice The information presented presented presented pre pre- pre pre- in the form of photographs photographs photographs photo photo- graphs old film clips and recorded interviews clearly shows the erosion of humanity taking place under Hitler's direction I was a little girl living living liv liv- ing in Russia when this was all happening but I remember it said exhibit patron Dusya Gutin We hated Hitler then for his killings but how different are we now Have we changed enough Over people including public school schoolchildren schoolchildren schoolchildren children have toured the exhibit since its opening Their reactions reactions reactions have ranged from bored indifference to heartfelt tears Some people ask why we keep bringing up the Holocaust and why we cant can't just forget it said Marriott Library Program Coordinator Arnie Amie Scoville I believe we are acting acting acting act act- ing as a reminder to help stop such an event from happening again i A 1 T it L 1 l i I 7 ka 9 Y ri a r rr r r i A 0 ir a p X 1 S' S V N 0 04 4 a N s ems ar z 7 a p S t r Breaking the barrier Jesse Owens at the 1932 Summer Olympics In Berlin Germany Courtesy of Bud Greenspan PAGE AGE P 11 1 1 av |
