Photo series
investigates
Arab lifestyle

Hoiocaust
exhibit a
testament
to courage
of rescuers

FOR THREE years, Gay Block and
Matka Drucker interviewed and
photograpined people who hid,
protected and saved Jews in
Europe during the Second World
ar.
Through their own stories and

images from family scrapbooks *

and albums, the exhibition
Rescuers of the Holocaust became
a testament to these individuals —
tens of thousands of ordinary
people who acted with extraor-
dinary courage and compassion to
save human lives.

The exhibition will be presented
at Presentation House Jan. 31 to
March 8.

Block has been a_ portrait
photographer since 1975 and has
photographed the Jewish com-
munity for over 10 years. A reci-
pient of a National Endowment for
the Arts fellowship, she recently
provided the portraits for Fifty
Texas Artists (Chronicle Books,
1986). Her work is in many public
collections, including the Museum
of Modern Art, New York; Centre
for Creative Photography; .Univer-
sity of Arizona, Tucson; and
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Drucker is a veteran writer in
the area of Jewish culture. She is
the author of many books for
young people, of which several
have been nominees for the Na-
tional Jewish Book Award.

Her latest book, Eliezer Ben
Yehuda: Father of Modern
Hebrew, (Lodestar/Dutton), won
the ADL Janusz Korczak Prize.

Rescuers of the Holocaust is or-
ganized and circulated by Cu-
ratorial Assistance in Los Angeles.
it is currently touring North
America and will travel to Europe.
The exhibition ts accompanied by
a book published by Curatorial
Assistance, to be launched simul-
taneously at the Presentation
House Gallery opening, and at the
Museum of Modern Art in New
York.

The exhibition will run opposite
a thematically-related show of re-
cent work by Vancouver artist
Nomi Kaplan, dealing with the
holocaust and the compiexities of
representing history.

Block and Drucker will par-
ticipate in a free special event on
Sunday, Feb. 16 at 2 p.m., called
Artist’s Talk which will include a
discussion panel with Vancouver
Holocaust rescuers and survivors.

Presentation House opening
reception is Jan. 30, 8-10 p.m. and
Artist’s Talk will be keld Feb. 16, 2
p.m.

For more information, call 986-
1351.

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THE LIFESTYLE of the Ordinary
Arab is West Vancouver's Bar-
bara Bartholomew’s series
displayed at The Art Commission
window exhibition at 148 East
2nd St. in North Vancouver until
Jan. 31. _

In the spring of 1990) Bar-
tholomew, a photographic artist.
found herself stranded in Luxor,
Egypt near the temple of Karnat.

Reduced to a $10-a-night bed
and determined not to return to
the North Shore without captur-
ing the inner sanctuary Arab life
on film, Bartholome. set out the
next morning weighted down
with cameras and wide-angle
lenses to take the peasant ferry
across the Nile to the villages
surrounding the Valley of The
Kings.

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