February
17, 2004
Holocaust Photos on Display at Oakton
Powerful images comprise "Phil Drell: Witness to the Holocaust," a two-week exhibition March 26 - April 8 at Oakton Community College, 1600 E. Golf Road. Photographer Phil Drell will present additional slides and talk about life as a Jewish soldier in Europe during World War II at an opening reception Friday, March 26 at 5 p.m.
Both the reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
Drell served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army's Special Motion Picture Coverage Unit, created by Gen. Dwight Eisenhower. His role at the time, working with director George Stevens (Shane, The Diary of Anne Frank), authors Irwin Shaw and William Saroyan, and others, was to create newsreels and training tapes. The horrors of Dachau and other death camps are manifest in the photos taken by Drell, who also covered events such as D-Day and the liberation of Paris.
Wendy Maier, adjunct history professor at Oakton and Holocaust scholar, will provide a context for Drell's photos in a presentation to be held near the exhibition on Friday, April 2, at 3 p.m. The public is invited to attend Maier's free lecture entitled, "An Investigation of Female Perpetrators of Genocide and Other Crimes During the Holocaust."
"Phil Drell: Witness to the Holocaust" is on display along Student Street outside the main library doors at Oakton's Des Plaines campus. The exhibition is available 7 a.m. - 10 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 6 a.m. - 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.
For more information, please contact Prof. Maier at 847-635-1910.
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