Asbury Park Press
March 14 2009

Multimedia Holocaust memorial exhibit coming to Georgian Court

By Tara Strickland ¢ Reader Submitted ¢ March 13, 2009

LAKEWOOD ‘ Georgian Court University will present a multimedia
`Holocaust Memorial Exhibit’ April 6-24, 2009, in the university’s
M. Christina Geis Art Gallery.

The exhibit, timed to correspond with Holocaust Remembrance Day on
April 21, will include children’s books, historic and modern
photographs, maps, posters, and text panels.

`This important exhibit will take the viewer along a journey of one of
humanity’s darkest times,’ says Kathleen Settles, gallery director,
and one of the exhibit organizers. `The purpose of the exhibit is to
promote awareness, teach tolerance, inspire compassion, and hopefully
enlist the viewer to an allegiance of goodwill toward all of
humanity.’

According to Lisa A. Festa, Ph.D., an assistant professor of art
history who also helped to organize the display, the exhibit will
feature a history of anti-Semitism throughout the ages, a timeline of
the rise of Hitler and the **** party, and focus on the implementation
of laws against Jews as well as the ****s’ censorship of art and
culture.

The exhibition will continue with a spotlight on the ghettos of
Warsaw, Poland, and Terezn, Czechoslovakia, as well as the
concentration camps of Dachau, Germany, and Auschwitz/Birkenau,
Poland. It will also feature the liberation of the camps near the end
of the war. The exhibition will further pay tribute to several
rescuers and the `righteous among nations,’ and will end with a
display about genocides in other lands after World War II.

`It is hoped that viewers will leave the exhibition with a sense of
compassion and enlightenment, as well as a motivation and personal
drive to help change current events in order to ensure that genocide
never happens again,’ says Dr. Festa.

The exhibit coincides with `Yom HaShoah,’ or Holocaust Remembrance
Day, a day set aside to commemorate the lives and heroism of the six
million Jewish people who died in the Holocaust between 1933 and
1945. The exhibit closes on the anniversary of the onset of the `Great
Catastrophe,’ the Armenian genocide of 1.5 million people that began
in 1915.

In addition to Ms. Settles and Dr. Festa, the exhibit was organized
and compiled with the assistance of Jos Gonzalez, lecturer in art.

The M. Christina Geis Art Gallery spotlights works of established and
up-and-coming artists in diverse media. The gallery is located on the
second floor of the Arts and Science Center on Georgian Court’s
Lakewood campus. Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday from 9 am
to 8 pm and Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The exhibit is free and
open to the public. For more information, call Kathleen Settles at
732.987.2388.

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