{"id":24,"date":"2018-07-24T15:31:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T15:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitaleditions.library.dal.ca\/glovinawards\/chapter\/__unknown__\/"},"modified":"2019-03-05T19:49:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T19:49:43","slug":"preface","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/digitaleditions.library.dal.ca\/glovinawards\/chapter\/preface\/","title":{"raw":"Preface: The Irving and Jeanne Glovin Award","rendered":"Preface: The Irving and Jeanne Glovin Award"},"content":{"raw":"
\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"605\"]\"Image: Irv Glovin (L) and Oskar Schindler on the beach in Tel Aviv, Israel (circa 1972)[\/caption]\r\n

Irv<\/span>ing (Irv)<\/span> Glovin<\/span> was my uncle, my mom\u2019s younger brother.<\/span> The first time I remember <\/span>him was<\/span> July or August of 1944. H<\/span>e <\/span>was a student at Columbia University in NY, and he <\/span>had just learned he had been drafted<\/span>. <\/span>World War II was on everyone\u2019s mind. The D-Day landings had occurred <\/span>in Europe, Casab<\/span>l<\/span>anca had won the Acade<\/span>my Award for best picture, and o<\/span>n April 4<\/span>th<\/sup>, the world had first heard of Auschwitz via aerial photos taken by a <\/span>British aircraft. By November<\/span> 1944<\/span>,<\/span> Irv <\/span>was a Lieutenant in the US Army. He was w<\/span>hat they called \u201ca 90 day wonder\"<\/span>: college to army commission in just over 90 days after reporting for the draft. He was soon <\/span>on his way to Europe. When his unit arrived they were <\/span>inexperienced <\/span>and untested<\/span>. In<\/span> an effort to give them time to \u201clearn\u201d they were sent to what was considered the saf<\/span>est part of the American lines, a<\/span> patch of forest <\/span>in Belgium called the Ardennes<\/span>. <\/span>No one knew the Nazis were planning a counter attack. And so, this green and untested unit became the first US force to have contact with German Panzer divisions thrusting into the Allied lines<\/span> at a <\/span>fight <\/span>which <\/span>became known as the Battle of the Bulge<\/span>. <\/span> It was here that US <\/span>Gen. <\/span>McAuliffe uttered the immortal word \u201cNuts\u201d to a German offer to surrender. It was here that Gen<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>George Patton drove his tanks to an amazing rescue of the <\/span>armed <\/span>forces<\/span> in Bastogne. <\/span>It was here that Irv became a German p<\/span>risoner of war within days<\/span> of landing in Europe. Being Jewish, Irv was a prime candidate for execution by the Nazis. He was forced to use the dog-tags of a fellow soldier who had been killed in action. So, our family received a telegram saying that he was \u201cMissing in Action\u201d as h<\/span>e had literally disappeared. Irv<\/span> remained in the camp<\/span> for nearly a year<\/span>, eventually <\/span>being moved to Germany itself and<\/span> ultimately freed by a Russian infantry unit. According to Irv, the commander of that unit pointed west and t<\/span>old<\/span> all the prisoners \u2013 \u201cAmericanskis \u2013 Go.<\/span>\u201d\u00a0<\/span>By that time, t<\/span>he war <\/span>in Europe <\/span>had ended and so it was much<\/span> safer to be wander<\/span>ing through Germany<\/span>. He made contact with US tr<\/span>oops<\/span> at a place called Dachau which had been liberated<\/span> by the Japanese-American Nisei <\/span>division, one of the most <\/span>decorated <\/span>groups<\/span> of men ever to fight for the United States \u2013 many with relatives<\/span> who had been<\/span> in internment camps at home.<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n

Having been at Dachau, Irv had seen firsthand what the Holo<\/span>ca<\/span>u<\/span>st meant. When he returned to the US in mid-1945 <\/span>to be <\/span>disc<\/span>harged, he and his wife Rhea\u00a0<\/span>left New York and <\/span>went west,\u00a0<\/span>where he enrolled in the University of Southern California Law<\/span> School. Rhea <\/span>was an artist<\/span> and <\/span>quickly got a job working for Looney Tunes studio drawing the gelatin cells used in making cartoons <\/span>in those days. <\/span>Two children and several years later, Irv<\/span> had <\/span>opened a <\/span>law <\/span>practi<\/span>ce in Brentwood<\/span>, <\/span>a city just on the edge of <\/span>Hollywood,<\/span> allowing him to make excelle<\/span>nt contacts with the film community<\/span>.<\/span> Sadly, <\/span>Rhea developed a virulent form of breast cancer and passed away. Irv continued his law practice and worked hard to raise his family<\/span>. H<\/span>e met <\/span>and married <\/span>Jeann<\/span>e<\/span> Kallen<\/span>, an<\/span> actress<\/span> involved in <\/span>stage, <\/span>TV and movie<\/span>s<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n

As his life <\/span>and law practice <\/span>was progressing, the<\/span> German government realized it had a debt <\/span>to many people,<\/span> and <\/span>so it <\/span>began to pay repatriations to survivors of the Holoca<\/span>ust who had lost families<\/span> and property. Several of them<\/span> now lived in the U.S. and approached Irv<\/span> to represent them in their claims against Germany. One name kept coming up as a person he should contact \u2013 and that name was Oskar Schindler.<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n

Oskar Schindler was a Nazi. He was an alcoholic. He was a womanizer. He bribed his way<\/span> through business. He seemed to represent all the negative sides <\/span>of humanit<\/span>y. But as Irv said of him:<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n

\u201cHe drank, yes, he drank. He liked women. He bribed. But he bribed for a good purpose. All of these<\/em> things worked. If he were not this kind of person he probably wouldn\u2019t have succeeded. Whatever it took to save a life he did. He worked the system extraordinarily well. He was a true human being in the best sense of the word.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\r\n \r\n

Most of us are aware of what Oskar Schindler did. But for those who are not, suffice it to say that he owned a factory in Krakow, Poland which used Jewish slave labor from a nearby concentration camp. Through his efforts, a list of names was developed from his factory workers and other prisoners in the camp (\"Schindler\u2019s List\"), which saved over one thousand Jews from the Holocaust and from extermination at Auschwitz. <\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n

W<\/span>hen the war ended, Schindler was broke. He <\/span>had a<\/span> letter from <\/span>h<\/span>is factory workers telling how he had saved them, but he <\/span>was a Sudeten German living in what was then called Czechoslovakia. His only hope <\/span>for survival <\/span>was Germany and so he moved first to Regensburg and then to Munich. His primary source of income was from Jewish organizations who knew his story and from <\/span>gifts he received from some of those he had saved in his factory. In 1948, Schindler and his wife<\/span> Emilie<\/span> moved to Argentina. <\/span>While<\/span> they were in Argentina, <\/span>one of the<\/span> \u201c<\/span>Schindler People\u201d<\/span> approached MGM <\/span>and several producers <\/span>to consider making a film about the events surrounding the Schindler factory and the Jews h<\/span>e had saved. Eventually MGM bought the<\/span> Schindler story for $50,000, b<\/span>ut the story was never made into a film. In 1957, with the relationship between Emilie and Oskar very strained, and their financial situation dire, <\/span>Oskar<\/span> moved back <\/span>to Germany <\/span>alone, never to see Emilie again.<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n

In the early 1970\u2019s <\/span>Irv had enou<\/span>gh information about <\/span>Schindler from those applyi<\/span>ng for repatriation that he flew <\/span>to <\/span>Germany to<\/span> get written documentation <\/span>directly <\/span>from Oskar<\/span> to support the claims of his clients. <\/span>Oscar and Irv <\/span>met. They bonded.<\/span> They became hard<\/span> fast friends<\/span>, corresponding regularly. Eventually Irv became Os<\/span>kar\u2019s attorney, handling <\/span>all <\/span>his <\/span>legal work and claims<\/span> and assisting<\/span> him<\/span> in<\/span> contacting people in the United States, <\/span>Germany <\/span>and Israel.<\/span> Schindler had already been honored by Yad Vashem, the Memorial to the Holocaust in Jerusalem, as a person considered \u201cRight<\/span>eous Among Nations\u201d. There is<\/span> a tree in his name along the Avenue of the<\/span> Righteous. <\/span>Irv also contacted MGM and, with Oskar\u2019s encouragement<\/span> and approval, bought <\/span>the rights to Oskar\u2019s story from them. <\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n

Schindler moved to Hidesheim, Germany in <\/span>1971 and died there in 1974 at 66. His body was transported <\/span>to Mt Zion in Jerusalem, Israel. H<\/span>e is buried there in a simple grave which serves as a meeting place for Holocaust survivors and their families. Irv <\/span>frequently <\/span>pointed out that the Schind<\/span>l<\/span>er<\/span> story is remarkable because Oskar <\/span>acted at one of the worst times in history, in one of the worst places <\/span>in history<\/span>, and he did it for total strangers.<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n

In October 1980<\/span>, T<\/span>h<\/span>om<\/span>as<\/span> Keneally<\/span>, a highly respected Australian author, visited a luggage shop in California run by a man named <\/span>Leopold Pfefferberg<\/span>, <\/span>one of the Schindler\u2019s List survivors. Pfefferberg, whom Keneally called Poldek, wanted the Schindler story told<\/span>,<\/span> and when he heard that Keneally was an author, he set about convincing him to write it. Eventually Pfefferberg set up a meeting with Thomas Keneally and Irv Glovin. <\/span>As a result of that meeting, <\/span>Keneally <\/span>agreed <\/span>to write the story<\/span>. Irv said he \u201chired\u201d or \u201ccommissioned\u201d Keneally to do it since he (Irv) owned the rights to the story having bought them back from MGM with Oskar\u2019s encouragement and permission. <\/span>Keneally<\/span> used materials from Pfefferberg, Irv, <\/span>and many others to write a <\/span>wonderfully <\/span>c<\/span>ompelling book<\/span> in 1982 <\/span>called <\/span>Schindler\u2019s Ark<\/em> in most<\/span> of the world, but <\/span>Schindler\u2019s List<\/em> in<\/span> North America<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n

Steven Spielberg had worked for many years on something called the Shoah Foundation Project, which recorded testimony from Holocaust survivors to preserve them for posterity.<\/span> Irv <\/span>told me that he knew Spielberg through various contacts in Hollywood<\/span>, <\/span>and<\/span> he knew of<\/span> the Shoah Foundation as s<\/span>ome of his clients <\/span>were part of the project.<\/span> Through a variety of contacts, Spielberg had become interested in making Schindler\u2019s List into a film. Irv <\/span>was instrumental in selling the rights to the Schindler story to <\/span>Spielberg in the early 1980s. In 1993, <\/span>Spielberg<\/span> adapted the <\/span>Keneally<\/span> novel<\/span> i<\/span>nto a <\/span>f<\/span>ilm which won seven Academy Awards<\/span> including Best Picture. When the film opens you will see the name Irving Glovin as Associate Producer.\u00a0<\/span>Oskar Schindler, Leopold Pfefferberg and more than a thousand others lived the story. Thomas Keneally brought it to everyone\u2019s attention. Steven Spielberg and his cast brought it to the world. Irving Glovin was the glue that united <\/span>all <\/span>the parts.<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n

Irv<\/span>ing<\/span> and Jeanne Glovin felt they needed to give back to the world some of what they had gained as a result of their contact with Oskar Schindler. His story belongs to the world and they wanted to carry on his ideals<\/span> and his message<\/span>. Accordingly, they formed the Oskar Schindler Humanities Foundation <\/span>Endowment Fund, which has provided support<\/span> to Dalhousie University, University of New Haven and the University of Southern California<\/span> as well as other groups. Each program has a u<\/span>nique approach ranging from an e<\/span>ndowed teaching chair to student scholarships to assistance in film making.<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n

When Irv and Jeannie came to Halifax to present the Foundation award to Dalhousie, Irv presented his idea of the question at hand \u2013 \u201cWhat co<\/span>nstitutes good human behavior?<\/span>\u201d<\/span> He pointed out that Oskar Schindler was far from the perfect human being \u2013 and yet he is revered for his efforts. Irv used an interesting analogy to describe his question. Suppose your government passes a law<\/span> which is, at best, controversial. For example, suppose they said you can no longer wear a shirt with the name Dalhousie University on it. It is now <\/span>illegal. You, as a proud alumnus<\/span> of Dal<\/span>housie<\/span>, decide to ignore such a ridiculous law. You live in a corner house and proudly wear your Dalhousie shirt out on the street as you mow the lawn (or in Nova Scotia \u2013 shovel the snow!). Your neighbor on the adjacent corner sees you<\/span>, and is <\/span>a law-abiding, honest person. He knows th<\/span>at you are violating a law and so he <\/span>notifies the authoritie<\/span>s that a law is being broken. Another neighbor <\/span>on th<\/span>e opposite corner also sees you, <\/span>knows you are violating the law, but <\/span>believes that the law is wrong and <\/span>foolish<\/span>. He decides to <\/span>ignore it and simply not report you or do an<\/span>ythin<\/span>g to support an unreasonable and <\/span>inappropriate <\/span>piece of <\/span>legislation. On the third corner, your neighbor sees you, dislikes the law<\/span> and <\/span>is afraid of what might happen to you if you persist in violating it. So<\/span>,<\/span> he brings over a light jacket for you to put on<\/span> over the shirt \u2013 hiding it. That<\/span> is, not asking you to stop <\/span>wearing the shirt, but<\/span>\u00a0simply protecting you from government action in response to your situation. <\/span>Irv asked, \u201cWhich of these people<\/span> is<\/span> displaying good human behavior?<\/span> The first neighbor who enforces and obeys the law? The second neigh<\/span>bor who ignores a bad law? <\/span>The <\/span>third neighbor <\/span>who protects you <\/span>from a bad law<\/span>?\u201d<\/span> Irv wanted us to talk about it and <\/span>to help to define an answer to the <\/span>question<\/span>, \u201cWhat is good human behavior?<\/span>\u201d<\/span> He also believed that once we h<\/span>ad determined a way to answer th<\/span>at question (if there really is such an answer) it was important that we develop tools to teach it to our children. For, as Irv believed, each generation must discuss and learn the answer to the question and put that answer into practice.<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n

The Dalhousie University project began in 2003. <\/span>In part, the <\/span>Dalhousie documentation reads:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201c<\/span>The <\/span>Oskar Schindler Humanities Foundation established The Irving and<\/span> Jeanne Glovin Award in 2003, to foster research into the meaning and underlying principles for \u201c<\/span>good human conduct.\u201d\u00a0 The <\/span>F<\/span>oundation is interested in stimulating scholarly work that defines \u201cgood human conduct\u201d wit<\/span>h which all persons could agree<\/span>; to<\/span> explore its sources; <\/span>and <\/span>to <\/span>develop pragmatic educational strategies and ways of teaching children, to show by <\/span>action, <\/span>respect and acceptance of others by peoples of the world regardless of circumstances or background. The spirit of the research may be illustrated by the words of Confucius: \u201cDo not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you.\u201d\u00a0 Researchers are encouraged to demonstrate the importance of acceptan<\/span>ce and mutual respect of others.<\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n

The award winner is asked to make a public presentation of their research. This volume is a compilation of<\/span> the<\/span> Oskar Schindler Humanities Foundation <\/span>scholarship <\/span>winners.<\/span> One of the ideas Irv and Jeanne had was to follow the Oskar Schindler Humanities Foundation winners over the years to see how they develop and specific<\/span>ally, how they have applied <\/span>what they had written as a part of the competition. <\/span>Where possible we have included a brief synopsis of the winners' answers to these questions.<\/p>\r\n \r\n

Irving and Jeanne <\/span>Glovin<\/span> are now both deceased. Their legacy does live on in what they have created and how that influences the way we treat each other. <\/span>In the spirit of Oskar Schindler and Irv Glovin, this text is dedicated to Good Human Conduct, something which we all want <\/span>to practice as we <\/span>\u201cdo unto others as we would have others do unto us\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n

- George <\/span>Mencher<\/span>, <\/span>PhD<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\r\n
Director Emeritus, Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech <\/span>Centres<\/span><\/em><\/div>\r\n
Retired Adjunct Professor,\u00a0<\/span>School Of Human Communication Disorders<\/span>, <\/span><\/em>Dalhousie University<\/span><\/em><\/div>","rendered":"
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\"Image:
Irv Glovin (L) and Oskar Schindler on the beach in Tel Aviv, Israel (circa 1972)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Irv<\/span>ing (Irv)<\/span> Glovin<\/span> was my uncle, my mom\u2019s younger brother.<\/span> The first time I remember <\/span>him was<\/span> July or August of 1944. H<\/span>e <\/span>was a student at Columbia University in NY, and he <\/span>had just learned he had been drafted<\/span>. <\/span>World War II was on everyone\u2019s mind. The D-Day landings had occurred <\/span>in Europe, Casab<\/span>l<\/span>anca had won the Acade<\/span>my Award for best picture, and o<\/span>n April 4<\/span>th<\/sup>, the world had first heard of Auschwitz via aerial photos taken by a <\/span>British aircraft. By November<\/span> 1944<\/span>,<\/span> Irv <\/span>was a Lieutenant in the US Army. He was w<\/span>hat they called \u201ca 90 day wonder”<\/span>: college to army commission in just over 90 days after reporting for the draft. He was soon <\/span>on his way to Europe. When his unit arrived they were <\/span>inexperienced <\/span>and untested<\/span>. In<\/span> an effort to give them time to \u201clearn\u201d they were sent to what was considered the saf<\/span>est part of the American lines, a<\/span> patch of forest <\/span>in Belgium called the Ardennes<\/span>. <\/span>No one knew the Nazis were planning a counter attack. And so, this green and untested unit became the first US force to have contact with German Panzer divisions thrusting into the Allied lines<\/span> at a <\/span>fight <\/span>which <\/span>became known as the Battle of the Bulge<\/span>. <\/span> It was here that US <\/span>Gen. <\/span>McAuliffe uttered the immortal word \u201cNuts\u201d to a German offer to surrender. It was here that Gen<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>George Patton drove his tanks to an amazing rescue of the <\/span>armed <\/span>forces<\/span> in Bastogne. <\/span>It was here that Irv became a German p<\/span>risoner of war within days<\/span> of landing in Europe. Being Jewish, Irv was a prime candidate for execution by the Nazis. He was forced to use the dog-tags of a fellow soldier who had been killed in action. So, our family received a telegram saying that he was \u201cMissing in Action\u201d as h<\/span>e had literally disappeared. Irv<\/span> remained in the camp<\/span> for nearly a year<\/span>, eventually <\/span>being moved to Germany itself and<\/span> ultimately freed by a Russian infantry unit. According to Irv, the commander of that unit pointed west and t<\/span>old<\/span> all the prisoners \u2013 \u201cAmericanskis \u2013 Go.<\/span>\u201d\u00a0<\/span>By that time, t<\/span>he war <\/span>in Europe <\/span>had ended and so it was much<\/span> safer to be wander<\/span>ing through Germany<\/span>. He made contact with US tr<\/span>oops<\/span> at a place called Dachau which had been liberated<\/span> by the Japanese-American Nisei <\/span>division, one of the most <\/span>decorated <\/span>groups<\/span> of men ever to fight for the United States \u2013 many with relatives<\/span> who had been<\/span> in internment camps at home.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Having been at Dachau, Irv had seen firsthand what the Holo<\/span>ca<\/span>u<\/span>st meant. When he returned to the US in mid-1945 <\/span>to be <\/span>disc<\/span>harged, he and his wife Rhea\u00a0<\/span>left New York and <\/span>went west,\u00a0<\/span>where he enrolled in the University of Southern California Law<\/span> School. Rhea <\/span>was an artist<\/span> and <\/span>quickly got a job working for Looney Tunes studio drawing the gelatin cells used in making cartoons <\/span>in those days. <\/span>Two children and several years later, Irv<\/span> had <\/span>opened a <\/span>law <\/span>practi<\/span>ce in Brentwood<\/span>, <\/span>a city just on the edge of <\/span>Hollywood,<\/span> allowing him to make excelle<\/span>nt contacts with the film community<\/span>.<\/span> Sadly, <\/span>Rhea developed a virulent form of breast cancer and passed away. Irv continued his law practice and worked hard to raise his family<\/span>. H<\/span>e met <\/span>and married <\/span>Jeann<\/span>e<\/span> Kallen<\/span>, an<\/span> actress<\/span> involved in <\/span>stage, <\/span>TV and movie<\/span>s<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

As his life <\/span>and law practice <\/span>was progressing, the<\/span> German government realized it had a debt <\/span>to many people,<\/span> and <\/span>so it <\/span>began to pay repatriations to survivors of the Holoca<\/span>ust who had lost families<\/span> and property. Several of them<\/span> now lived in the U.S. and approached Irv<\/span> to represent them in their claims against Germany. One name kept coming up as a person he should contact \u2013 and that name was Oskar Schindler.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Oskar Schindler was a Nazi. He was an alcoholic. He was a womanizer. He bribed his way<\/span> through business. He seemed to represent all the negative sides <\/span>of humanit<\/span>y. But as Irv said of him:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cHe drank, yes, he drank. He liked women. He bribed. But he bribed for a good purpose. All of these<\/em> things worked. If he were not this kind of person he probably wouldn\u2019t have succeeded. Whatever it took to save a life he did. He worked the system extraordinarily well. He was a true human being in the best sense of the word.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Most of us are aware of what Oskar Schindler did. But for those who are not, suffice it to say that he owned a factory in Krakow, Poland which used Jewish slave labor from a nearby concentration camp. Through his efforts, a list of names was developed from his factory workers and other prisoners in the camp (“Schindler\u2019s List”), which saved over one thousand Jews from the Holocaust and from extermination at Auschwitz. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

W<\/span>hen the war ended, Schindler was broke. He <\/span>had a<\/span> letter from <\/span>h<\/span>is factory workers telling how he had saved them, but he <\/span>was a Sudeten German living in what was then called Czechoslovakia. His only hope <\/span>for survival <\/span>was Germany and so he moved first to Regensburg and then to Munich. His primary source of income was from Jewish organizations who knew his story and from <\/span>gifts he received from some of those he had saved in his factory. In 1948, Schindler and his wife<\/span> Emilie<\/span> moved to Argentina. <\/span>While<\/span> they were in Argentina, <\/span>one of the<\/span> \u201c<\/span>Schindler People\u201d<\/span> approached MGM <\/span>and several producers <\/span>to consider making a film about the events surrounding the Schindler factory and the Jews h<\/span>e had saved. Eventually MGM bought the<\/span> Schindler story for $50,000, b<\/span>ut the story was never made into a film. In 1957, with the relationship between Emilie and Oskar very strained, and their financial situation dire, <\/span>Oskar<\/span> moved back <\/span>to Germany <\/span>alone, never to see Emilie again.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

In the early 1970\u2019s <\/span>Irv had enou<\/span>gh information about <\/span>Schindler from those applyi<\/span>ng for repatriation that he flew <\/span>to <\/span>Germany to<\/span> get written documentation <\/span>directly <\/span>from Oskar<\/span> to support the claims of his clients. <\/span>Oscar and Irv <\/span>met. They bonded.<\/span> They became hard<\/span> fast friends<\/span>, corresponding regularly. Eventually Irv became Os<\/span>kar\u2019s attorney, handling <\/span>all <\/span>his <\/span>legal work and claims<\/span> and assisting<\/span> him<\/span> in<\/span> contacting people in the United States, <\/span>Germany <\/span>and Israel.<\/span> Schindler had already been honored by Yad Vashem, the Memorial to the Holocaust in Jerusalem, as a person considered \u201cRight<\/span>eous Among Nations\u201d. There is<\/span> a tree in his name along the Avenue of the<\/span> Righteous. <\/span>Irv also contacted MGM and, with Oskar\u2019s encouragement<\/span> and approval, bought <\/span>the rights to Oskar\u2019s story from them. <\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Schindler moved to Hidesheim, Germany in <\/span>1971 and died there in 1974 at 66. His body was transported <\/span>to Mt Zion in Jerusalem, Israel. H<\/span>e is buried there in a simple grave which serves as a meeting place for Holocaust survivors and their families. Irv <\/span>frequently <\/span>pointed out that the Schind<\/span>l<\/span>er<\/span> story is remarkable because Oskar <\/span>acted at one of the worst times in history, in one of the worst places <\/span>in history<\/span>, and he did it for total strangers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In October 1980<\/span>, T<\/span>h<\/span>om<\/span>as<\/span> Keneally<\/span>, a highly respected Australian author, visited a luggage shop in California run by a man named <\/span>Leopold Pfefferberg<\/span>, <\/span>one of the Schindler\u2019s List survivors. Pfefferberg, whom Keneally called Poldek, wanted the Schindler story told<\/span>,<\/span> and when he heard that Keneally was an author, he set about convincing him to write it. Eventually Pfefferberg set up a meeting with Thomas Keneally and Irv Glovin. <\/span>As a result of that meeting, <\/span>Keneally <\/span>agreed <\/span>to write the story<\/span>. Irv said he \u201chired\u201d or \u201ccommissioned\u201d Keneally to do it since he (Irv) owned the rights to the story having bought them back from MGM with Oskar\u2019s encouragement and permission. <\/span>Keneally<\/span> used materials from Pfefferberg, Irv, <\/span>and many others to write a <\/span>wonderfully <\/span>c<\/span>ompelling book<\/span> in 1982 <\/span>called <\/span>Schindler\u2019s Ark<\/em> in most<\/span> of the world, but <\/span>Schindler\u2019s List<\/em> in<\/span> North America<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Steven Spielberg had worked for many years on something called the Shoah Foundation Project, which recorded testimony from Holocaust survivors to preserve them for posterity.<\/span> Irv <\/span>told me that he knew Spielberg through various contacts in Hollywood<\/span>, <\/span>and<\/span> he knew of<\/span> the Shoah Foundation as s<\/span>ome of his clients <\/span>were part of the project.<\/span> Through a variety of contacts, Spielberg had become interested in making Schindler\u2019s List into a film. Irv <\/span>was instrumental in selling the rights to the Schindler story to <\/span>Spielberg in the early 1980s. In 1993, <\/span>Spielberg<\/span> adapted the <\/span>Keneally<\/span> novel<\/span> i<\/span>nto a <\/span>f<\/span>ilm which won seven Academy Awards<\/span> including Best Picture. When the film opens you will see the name Irving Glovin as Associate Producer.\u00a0<\/span>Oskar Schindler, Leopold Pfefferberg and more than a thousand others lived the story. Thomas Keneally brought it to everyone\u2019s attention. Steven Spielberg and his cast brought it to the world. Irving Glovin was the glue that united <\/span>all <\/span>the parts.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Irv<\/span>ing<\/span> and Jeanne Glovin felt they needed to give back to the world some of what they had gained as a result of their contact with Oskar Schindler. His story belongs to the world and they wanted to carry on his ideals<\/span> and his message<\/span>. Accordingly, they formed the Oskar Schindler Humanities Foundation <\/span>Endowment Fund, which has provided support<\/span> to Dalhousie University, University of New Haven and the University of Southern California<\/span> as well as other groups. Each program has a u<\/span>nique approach ranging from an e<\/span>ndowed teaching chair to student scholarships to assistance in film making.<\/span><\/p>\n

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When Irv and Jeannie came to Halifax to present the Foundation award to Dalhousie, Irv presented his idea of the question at hand \u2013 \u201cWhat co<\/span>nstitutes good human behavior?<\/span>\u201d<\/span> He pointed out that Oskar Schindler was far from the perfect human being \u2013 and yet he is revered for his efforts. Irv used an interesting analogy to describe his question. Suppose your government passes a law<\/span> which is, at best, controversial. For example, suppose they said you can no longer wear a shirt with the name Dalhousie University on it. It is now <\/span>illegal. You, as a proud alumnus<\/span> of Dal<\/span>housie<\/span>, decide to ignore such a ridiculous law. You live in a corner house and proudly wear your Dalhousie shirt out on the street as you mow the lawn (or in Nova Scotia \u2013 shovel the snow!). Your neighbor on the adjacent corner sees you<\/span>, and is <\/span>a law-abiding, honest person. He knows th<\/span>at you are violating a law and so he <\/span>notifies the authoritie<\/span>s that a law is being broken. Another neighbor <\/span>on th<\/span>e opposite corner also sees you, <\/span>knows you are violating the law, but <\/span>believes that the law is wrong and <\/span>foolish<\/span>. He decides to <\/span>ignore it and simply not report you or do an<\/span>ythin<\/span>g to support an unreasonable and <\/span>inappropriate <\/span>piece of <\/span>legislation. On the third corner, your neighbor sees you, dislikes the law<\/span> and <\/span>is afraid of what might happen to you if you persist in violating it. So<\/span>,<\/span> he brings over a light jacket for you to put on<\/span> over the shirt \u2013 hiding it. That<\/span> is, not asking you to stop <\/span>wearing the shirt, but<\/span>\u00a0simply protecting you from government action in response to your situation. <\/span>Irv asked, \u201cWhich of these people<\/span> is<\/span> displaying good human behavior?<\/span> The first neighbor who enforces and obeys the law? The second neigh<\/span>bor who ignores a bad law? <\/span>The <\/span>third neighbor <\/span>who protects you <\/span>from a bad law<\/span>?\u201d<\/span> Irv wanted us to talk about it and <\/span>to help to define an answer to the <\/span>question<\/span>, \u201cWhat is good human behavior?<\/span>\u201d<\/span> He also believed that once we h<\/span>ad determined a way to answer th<\/span>at question (if there really is such an answer) it was important that we develop tools to teach it to our children. For, as Irv believed, each generation must discuss and learn the answer to the question and put that answer into practice.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Dalhousie University project began in 2003. <\/span>In part, the <\/span>Dalhousie documentation reads:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>The <\/span>Oskar Schindler Humanities Foundation established The Irving and<\/span> Jeanne Glovin Award in 2003, to foster research into the meaning and underlying principles for \u201c<\/span>good human conduct.\u201d\u00a0 The <\/span>F<\/span>oundation is interested in stimulating scholarly work that defines \u201cgood human conduct\u201d wit<\/span>h which all persons could agree<\/span>; to<\/span> explore its sources; <\/span>and <\/span>to <\/span>develop pragmatic educational strategies and ways of teaching children, to show by <\/span>action, <\/span>respect and acceptance of others by peoples of the world regardless of circumstances or background. The spirit of the research may be illustrated by the words of Confucius: \u201cDo not do unto others what you would not have them do unto you.\u201d\u00a0 Researchers are encouraged to demonstrate the importance of acceptan<\/span>ce and mutual respect of others.<\/span>\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The award winner is asked to make a public presentation of their research. This volume is a compilation of<\/span> the<\/span> Oskar Schindler Humanities Foundation <\/span>scholarship <\/span>winners.<\/span> One of the ideas Irv and Jeanne had was to follow the Oskar Schindler Humanities Foundation winners over the years to see how they develop and specific<\/span>ally, how they have applied <\/span>what they had written as a part of the competition. <\/span>Where possible we have included a brief synopsis of the winners’ answers to these questions.<\/p>\n

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Irving and Jeanne <\/span>Glovin<\/span> are now both deceased. Their legacy does live on in what they have created and how that influences the way we treat each other. <\/span>In the spirit of Oskar Schindler and Irv Glovin, this text is dedicated to Good Human Conduct, something which we all want <\/span>to practice as we <\/span>\u201cdo unto others as we would have others do unto us\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

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– George <\/span>Mencher<\/span>, <\/span>PhD<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Director Emeritus, Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech <\/span>Centres<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
Retired Adjunct Professor,\u00a0<\/span>School Of Human Communication Disorders<\/span>, <\/span><\/em>Dalhousie University<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"Preface","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":["george-mencher"],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[59],"license":[],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaleditions.library.dal.ca\/glovinawards\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaleditions.library.dal.ca\/glovinawards\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaleditions.library.dal.ca\/glovinawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaleditions.library.dal.ca\/glovinawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/digitaleditions.library.dal.ca\/glovinawards\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/digitaleditions.library.dal.ca\/glovinawards\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/24\/revisions\/145"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaleditions.library.dal.ca\/glovinawards\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaleditions.library.dal.ca\/glovinawards\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/24\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaleditions.library.dal.ca\/glovinawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaleditions.library.dal.ca\/glovinawards\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaleditions.library.dal.ca\/glovinawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaleditions.library.dal.ca\/glovinawards\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}