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...rash of Holocaust-related dramas filling stages in New York City and around the country. The Center Stage in Baltimore recently completed the first major U.S. revival of "The Investigation," Peter Weiss's 1965 play drawn entirely from transcripts of the Frankfurt trials of those who helped run the Auschwitz death camp. Arje Shaw's "The Gathering," about the conflict between a Holocaust survivor (Hal Linden) and his son, will arrive on Broadway in April. And off-Broadway's Classic Stage Company is presenting "I Will Bear Witness," based on the diaries of Victor Klemperer, a German...
Carroll, a novelist (1978's Mortal Friends), newspaper columnist and 1997 National Book Award winner, says his book was inspired by the large cross erected by Poles outside Auschwitz. But his real target appears to be the Vatican's 1998 apology, "We Remember." That long-awaited document expressed regret at Christian mistreatment of Jews over the centuries but pinned the fault on some of the church's sinful "members" while holding blameless "the church as such...
McDonough said he realized he wanted to design responsibly after a visit to Auschwitz...
...existence. In paintings such as 1969's "Meeting" and "Riding Round" and 1970's "Three," KKK figures collude in sinister, masked secrecy. In "Riding Round" and "Three," they point, smoke cigars and drive a massive black car; smoke-pipes protrude from industrial buildings in the background, ominously reminiscent of Auschwitz's human ovens. But Guston pokes fun at these self-absorbed, self-indulgent figures too: "fascinated by the idea of evil," as he puts it, he finally exorcises the terror of the KKK by appropriating their hoods, by making them seem ridiculous, childish-and yes, even likeable...
...build a nuclear plant in Nagasaki b) create a Titanic-themed water park c) open a disco in an Auschwitz building d) put a Sizzler in the Vatican...