installation
Szostak/Fibich
On the night of February 12-13th, 1940, 1,120 Pomeranian Jews, including 846 persons from Stettin, were arrested for deportation. On February 16th they reached the temporary camp in Lublin, from where they were resettled to Piaski, Belzyce and Glusk. There they were transferred to local Jewish families’ homes, and later to the newly established ghettos. It was the first Nazi organized deportation from the area of the so-called Old Reich, where Jews – the citizens of the German state – were deported outside its territory, to the conquered areas. It was a kind of “exercise” in order to achieve
proficiency in carrying out subsequent deportations, which took place almost all over Europe in the following years.
APPRENTICESHIP – installation
We rewrite by hand the contents of letters once written. On the streets of Niebuszewo, at the recovered addresses of Stettin Jews, we mark the places of countable absences. “Sarah” and “Israel” had their own names, their own homes and one fate.
Szostak/Fibich
Thanks to: Eryk Krasucki, Róża Król, Agnieszka Wysocka, Dorota Makrutzki, Gunter Dehnert, Zbigniew Plesner, Witold Dąbrowski
The project was carried out using materials from The State Archive in Szczecin.
Authors: Natalia Szostak, Weronika Fibich
Organizer: The KANA Theatre, BONDS OF CULTURE – 2020
Partner: Pomeranian State Museum in Greifswald, The State Archive in Szczecin, The Social-Cultural Association of Jews in Poland – Szczecin Branch, TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art in Szczecin, Academy of Art in Szczecin
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