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:
ASSOCIATION AGAINST
ANTISEMITISM AND XENOPHOBIA
Krakowskie Przedmieście 16/18, 00-325 Warszawa
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