Cultural Life in Terezin

Invitation

The Conference will take place on Thursday, 21 Adar 5772, March 15th 2012
in the Auditorium of Yad Vashem, Har Hazikaron, Jerusalem

09:00 - 09:30 Registration

09:30 - 10:00 Opening words: Mr. Avner Shalev, Chairman of Yad Vashem

Greetings:

Rabbi Michael Melchior, President of the International Institute for Jewish and Israeli Culture
Mr Tomas Pojar, Ambassador of the Czech Republic
A Representative of the Claims Conference

Master of Ceremonies: Dr Bella Guterman

10:00 - 10:45 First Session:
Memory, Fiction and Imagination - Transforming Holocaust Creations into Theatre Performance

Chair : Dr Margalit Shlain, Historian of the Beit Terezin Museum at Emek Hefer,
Academic Consultant to the Terezin Project of the Holocaust Theatre Online Collection

Dr. Michal Govrin Theatre Department and Author :Theatre and Transmission of Memory

Mrs Ruth Bondy, Author, Researcher and Translator :Humor as a Means of Survival in the Terezin Ghetto

10:45-11:00 Intermission

11:00-12:15 Second Session
Exposure to Texts and Creational Processes in Terezin

Chair : Mr Moti Sandak, Director of the International Institute for Jewish and Israeli Culture

Mr Jacobo Kaufmann, Theatre and Opera Director, Israel
The Process of Writing and Rehearsing the Opera "The Emperor of Atlantis"

Mr Juan Mayorga, Playwright, Spain
Conversation about his play: "Way to Heaven" accompanied by the reading of two
Scenes by Kahn Theatre actors Nir Ron and Avinoam Mor -Haim

12:15-12:45 Intermission

12:45 - 13:15 Launching of the Holocaust Theatre Online Collection HTC Website

The Holocaust Theatre Online Collection (HTC)
is a uniquely accessible teaching tool that will educate a new
generation about a little-known aspect of the Holocaust.
Despite unspeakably difficult circumstances, Jewish actors, singers,
musicians, dancers, film makers and other artists regularly performed
in the Nazi ghettos and concentration camps.
Their remarkable creative output was a triumph of the human spirit
over unspeakable barbarism.

Mr Moti Sandak: Presenting the Holocaust Theatre Online Collection HTC Website
Vision, Purpose and Artistic Concept

Prof. Gad Kaynar: Head of the Theatre Department at Tel-Aviv University
Academic Aspects and Considerations in Editing the Website

13:15 - 14:15 Third Session
Music - Transferring the Cultural Legacy to the Next Generations

Chair : Dr Naama Shik, Yad Vashem

Prof. Michael Wolpe, Head of the Composition & Conducting Department of the
Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
Music at the Terezin Ghetto

Performance of the Terezin Cabaret: "Make-Believe Town" - Production of the Seminar "History, Music and Memory" - Beit Terezin

 

THE CONFERENCE IS SPONSORED BY

The Aharon Gutvirt Foundation, Claims Conference, Beit Terezin, the Embassy of Spain,
Instituto Cervantes Tel-Aviv, the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Tel-Aviv

 

THE PUBLIC IS INVITED