Thursday January 27, 2011
7:00PM - 9:00PM
International Holocaust Remembrance Day
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On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre invites you to discover powerful letters preserved in its collection. Under the direction of the National Theatre School of Canada, two young actors will perform a public reading of these messages which often were the individual's last words.
A husband asks his wife to be happy, a mother throws a message of hope to her children from a deportation train, a father leaves his daughter in his brother's care, a Jewish soldier discovers the fate of his people in concentration camps.
Some 18 letters, written between 1941 and 1944, were selected from the Center's collection. They are written by people caught in the storm of Nazism and the genocide of European Jews during the Second World War.
Letters that call for help, letters of farewell or hope, and these words are often the last traces of life that relatives of Holocaust victims have received.
These letters reflect the living conditions, hunger, poverty and especially concern even resignation in the face of tragedy. They also illustrate the complex history of the Holocaust and the diversity of fates shattered by a relentless policy of mass murder. Death is inevitable, we know, but these last few words are also a breath of humanity, a wind of hope that command those who are still able to continue living.
More than 60 years after the liberation of Auschwitz and over 6 million lives later, we are receiving these messages. Pay tribute to Holocaust victims and honor their memory because the commemoration is also a form of commitment to human rights.
This event is organized in partnership with the National Theatre School of Canada.
Free entrance.
A husband asks his wife to be happy, a mother throws a message of hope to her children from a deportation train, a father leaves his daughter in his brother's care, a Jewish soldier discovers the fate of his people in concentration camps.
Some 18 letters, written between 1941 and 1944, were selected from the Center's collection. They are written by people caught in the storm of Nazism and the genocide of European Jews during the Second World War.
Letters that call for help, letters of farewell or hope, and these words are often the last traces of life that relatives of Holocaust victims have received.
These letters reflect the living conditions, hunger, poverty and especially concern even resignation in the face of tragedy. They also illustrate the complex history of the Holocaust and the diversity of fates shattered by a relentless policy of mass murder. Death is inevitable, we know, but these last few words are also a breath of humanity, a wind of hope that command those who are still able to continue living.
More than 60 years after the liberation of Auschwitz and over 6 million lives later, we are receiving these messages. Pay tribute to Holocaust victims and honor their memory because the commemoration is also a form of commitment to human rights.
This event is organized in partnership with the National Theatre School of Canada.
Free entrance.
For More Information:
Address:
1 Cummings Square
City:
Montreal
Contact Name:
Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
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