Study Guide - Menemsha Films

NA-M.9-12.8 UNDERSTANDING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEENMUSIC, THE OTHER ARTS, AND DISCIPLINES OUTSIDE THEARTSNA-M.9-12.9 UNDERSTANDING MUSIC IN RELATION TOHISTORY AND CULTURE7. Vilna was known as the “Jerusalem of Lithuania” and was the seat of Jewish culture inthe east. Why did the Vilna ghetto enjoy a period of vibrant cultural activity?8. Samuel Bak states that cultural expression gave people a meaning for their lives. How?a. Can you state ways in which music, art, or dance increases your satisfaction withyour day-to-day existence?b. In what ways would your life be different if these things ceased to exist?NA-D.9-12.5 DEMONSTRATING AND UNDERSTANDING DANCEIN VARIOUS CULTURES AND HISTORICAL PERIODSNA-M.9-12.9 UNDERSTANDING MUSIC IN RELATION TOHISTORY AND CULTURENA-VA.9-12.4 UNDERSTANDING THE VISUAL ARTS INRELATION TO HISTORY AND CULTURES9. Judith Goldstein tells about the massacre at the Ponary Forest near the Vilna ghetto,where approximately 40,000 Jews were shot. A resort area about five miles from Vilnawas the site where from July 1941 to July 1944, about 100,000 people were executed bythe Nazis, with the aid of special Lithuanian units. The majority of the victims wereJewish men, women, and children from Vilna and the surrounding area, as well as fromother countries. In addition, a few thousand non-Jewish Soviet prisoners of war andcivilians were killed there. In spite of the deceit that the Nazis staged to mislead thevictims brought to Ponary, the nature of the place was known in the Vilna ghetto, as earlyas the fall of 1941, from reports of the few people who managed to escape during theAs Seen Through These Eyes Page 28