The Great Synagogue Restores Memory

A ceremony of virtual reconstruction of the Great Synagogue

18th April 2019 from 9:00 to 11:00 pm, Plac Bankowy, Warsaw

The Great Synagogue will symbolically return to the Bankowy Square. Join us for a stunning light and sound show.

The Open Republic Association will commemorate the 76th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising with a multimedia event created by the artist Gabi von Seltmann. On the night of 18th April, i.e. on the eve of the anniversary of the Uprising, the image of the synagogue rising from the rubble will appear on the wall of the Blue Skyscraper which was constructed on its site. The Great Synagogue, destroyed by the Germans after the fall of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, will be symbolically reconstructed through image, sound and emotion.

“May remembrance and love overcome destruction and death.”

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 Association, will be played during the ceremony.

The performance will last six minutes (the sequence will be repeated from 9:00 to 11:00 PM).

The event will be broadcast live at www.otwarta.org
For more details please visit our fanpage and event on FB.

 

Artists:

Director and concept creator – Gabi von Seltmann

Sound collage – Marcin Lenarczyk

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

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

 

Organizer:

The Open Republic Association Against Anti-Semitism and Xenophobia

Partner:

The Jewish Historical Institute Association in Poland

Project is co-financed by Capital City of Warsaw

Donors:

Andrzej and Malgorzata Rojek

Irene Kronhill Pletka and the Kronhill Pletka Foundation 

Patronage:

Museum of History of Polish Jews POLIN

The Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute

The Jewish Community of Warsaw

JCC Warsaw

 

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