September 12, 2002
Ruth Gruber: Photographs as Witness
5:00-7:00PM Opening Reception
Tyler Art Gallery
Exhibition Dates: September 12 to October 6, 2002

Wednesday, October 2,2002
THE BOAT IS FULL (1981 Film; German w/ English subtitles)
Screening at 7:00 pm in Tyler Art Gallery
Coordinated by SUNY Oswego Reading Initiative (ORI)
and sponsored by Artswego
Moderator: Ana Djukic-Cocks, Modern Languages and Literatures Dept.

When 8300 people immigrated to Switzerland by July 1942, the Swiss Parliament decided not to admit any more refugees. The term “the boat is full” was coined. This stark drama tells the story of a group of Jewish refugees who band together, posing as a family to avoid deportation. Eventually they are discovered and forced back to the German border – not by villainous Nazis, but by ordinary citizens who display a solid indifference to their plight.

Thursday, January 30 - 5:00 to 7:00 pm
Exhibition: January 30– February 22, 2003
Reception on A Voice Silenced
Created by granddaughter Diane Leonore Neumaier, Professor of Art at Rutgers University, in collaboration with her father, Dr. John J. Neumaier, A VOICE SILENCED depicts the life of the Viennese-born Frankfurt opera singer who was killed by the Nazis at Majdanek concentration camp in Poland in 1942. The story is told with studio photographs of Leonore Schwarz in the roles she sang with opera companies in Graz, Nuremberg, Magdeburg, and Frankfurt am Main, as well as with posters, documents and a collection of charming snapshots taken by her teenage son John with his Bar Mitzvah camera. A VOICE SILENCED is augmented with interpretive art work and a recording of Leonore Schwarz in concert

Wednesday, February 5, 2003
DARING TO RESIST: Three Women Face the Holocaust
(1999) A film by Barbara Attie and Martha Lubell
Screening at 7:00 pm in Tyler Art Gallery
Coordinated by SUNY Oswego Reading Initiative (ORI)
and sponsored by Artswego
Moderator: Mary McCune, History Dept. and Acting Director for Women’s Studies

This stunning documentary introduces us to three Jewish women who as teenagers in the early days of WWII, living in Holland, Hungary and Poland, had the wits and the intelligence to grasp what their parents could not – that the Nazi genocide would engulf them all and resistance therefore was not an option but a necessity. Flowing gracefully between the past and the present, the film seamlessly integrates archival footage and photographs.

Tuesday, February 18, 2003
SISTERS IN RESISTANCE
(2000 Film; French w/English subtitles) A film by Maia Wechsler
Screening at 7:00 pm in Tyler Art Gallery
Coordinated by SUNY Oswego Reading Initiative (ORI)
and sponsored by Artswego
Moderator: Thomas Judd, History Dept.

This compelling documentary shares the story of four French women of uncommon courage who, in their teens and twenties, risked their lives to fight the Nazi occupation of their country. Neither Jews nor communists, they were in no danger of arrest before they joined the Resistance. Within two years all four were arrested by the Gestapo and deported as political prisoners to the hell of Ravensbruck concentration camp, where they helped one another survive. Today, elderly but still very active, they continue to push forward as social activists and intellectual leaders in their fields.