The Great Synagogue Restores Memory

A ceremonial virtual reconstruction of the Great Synagogue

19 April 2018, at 9:30 p.m. – 10:00 p.m., Plac Bankowy Warsaw

The Open Republic Association will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising with a public multimedia event created by artist Gabi von Seltmann.

This ceremony is a virtual reconstruction of the Great Synagogue, demolished by the Germans after the Ghetto Uprising, using historical images, sounds and emotions. Archival recordings of the cantor of the Great Synagogue, Gerszon Sirota, who died in the Warsaw ghetto, and fragments of the poem Bashert, read by its author, Irena Klepfisz, daughter of Michał, a soldier of the Jewish Combat Organisation, will be played during the ceremony.

The performance will be repeated until 10:30 p. m., in 10 – minutes sequences.

PLEASE JOIN US FOR THIS UNIQUE EVENT

The event will be broadcast live on  www.otwarta.org

 

Artists:

Director – Gabi von Seltmann

Sound collage – Marcin Lenarczyk

Poem Bashert – Irena Klepfisz

Visual design and animation – Elwira Wojtunik, Popesz Csaba Láng / Elektro Moon Vision

Archival pictures – The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, The Warsaw Rising Museum

 

Organisation

Association against anti-Semitism and Xenophobia Open Republic

Partners:

The Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland

Museum of the History of Polish Jews POLIN

Donors:

Andrzej, Małgorzata Rojek

Irene Kronhill Pletka and The Kronhill Pletka Foundation

The Róża Luksemburg Foundation

Patronate:

The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute