Continuando con la serie Ficción, el viernes 2 de diciembre, a las 19 hs., se proyectará “Aléjate de la ventana” (dir. Jan Jakub Kolski, 2000). Es una historia basada en el relato de Hanna Krall, en la cual en un pequeño pueblo, durante la ocupación alemana durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Jan y su esposa Bárbara esconden a una joven judía, Regina. Ella queda embarazada de Jan. Para los vecinos, Bárbara pretende estar esperando un bebé y cuando Regina da a luz a una niña, ella la trata como suya.
De la serie Documentales presentaremos: “Una cucharita de vida” (dir. Michal Nekanda-Trepka, 2003): un breve documental que narra la historia de las niñas salvadas del gueto de Varsovia por Irena Sendler, martes 6 de diciembre, a las 19 hs.
En la sala de la Asociación Cultural Argentino-Polaca (J. L. Borges 2076, C.A.B.A.) podrán conocer las producciones polacas, tanto documentales, como de ficción, relacionadas con la presencia judía en la historia, sociedad y cultura polacas.
La entrada es gratuita. El ciclo continuará a partir del mes de enero de 2012 en la sede de la AMIA, Pasteur 633, C.A.B.A.
Esta información ha sido suministrada por la Secretaría de la Embajada de Polonia en Buenos Aires.
Alice Herz-Sommer, the renowned Czech pianist and the oldest known survivor of the Holocaust and the Theresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp, celebrates her 108th birthday this weekend. To honour her extra-ordinary life, Web of Stories is proud to present a wonderful video archive of Alice Herz-Sommer’s first-hand experiences at Theresienstadt and how music helped her survive. The video stories are available free of charge for everyone to view at http://webofstories.com.
ResponderEliminarTheresienstadt opened on 24th November 1941 and operated for three-and-a-half years, serving as a transit camp for Czech Jews who were artistically and culturally talented. It was used in a propaganda function as a ’show camp’ for the Germans to justify to the rest of the world the deportation or resettlement of Jews from Germany to the east. In reality, it served as a ghetto, a concentration camp and a holding bank for Jews before their deportation to killing centres in Eastern Europe. Now, 70 years later, it retains its reputation as a place in which many gifted writers, musicians, academics and actors were incarcerated and forced to give performances and lectures in an effort to create an impression of normality to the rest of the world, and although teaching was banned, many children were taught by these exceptionally talented individuals. Over 90 per cent of these children, however, were later murdered in death camps.
Four years ago, at the age of 104, Alice Herz-Sommer published a book called A Garden of Eden in Hell, where she recalls her time in Theresienstadt and how she was forced to play over a hundred concerts inside the concentration camp. Despite the terrible atrocities she and her family not only witnessed but also endured, she still maintains that the Nazis were “only human“.
In one of her video stories, Alice Herz-Sommer recollects a Nazi who was living in the apartment above her flat. His name was Hermann. Here she recalls the evening before she and her family were sent to Theresienstadt when the man came to visit her with his wife bearing biscuits, and said, “Mrs Sommer, I see you are [going] away. I don�t know what to tell you. In any case, I hope you will come back. What I know� what I want to tell you is that� I admire your playing� hours and hours, the patience and the beauty of the music� I thank you. In any case, I thank you.“