“A Soldier's Eye: Europe 1944 — Photographs by Irving Shapiro” runs though
Dec. 19 in the Mandeville Gallery.
In 1944 Irving Shapiro of Glens Falls was a soldier
in the midst of the Second World War. But he was also a man with a camera, and
the photographs he took during the first months after the Normandy invasion are
a remarkable record of the people and places he encountered in that period of
turmoil and upheaval.
Also on exhibit are artifacts and
images of Union College's experience with on-campus Navy
officer training during the later years of WWII, known as the V-12 Program,
featuring research by Jeff Roffman '05.
During the exhibition, an evening
film series on World War II in Europe,
organized in conjunction with the History Department, will be held on
alternate Thursdays in Old Chapel.
Remaining films are:
— Nov. 4, 6 p.m. – Stalingrad [Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?]
(1958), with Prof. Wilfried Wilms; and
— Nov. 11, 6 p.m. – Sahara (1943), with Prof.
John Cramsie.