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At the center of the open-air event in Siegen is the video instal\u00adla\u00adtion with the virtual recon\u00ads\u00adtruc\u00adtion of the Siegen Synagogue. This instal\u00adla\u00adtion will alternate on the wall of the Hoch\u00adbunker with the video instal\u00adla\u00adtion for the Great Synagogue Warsaw. Why two instal\u00adla\u00adtions? On the one hand, this is to show the connec\u00adtion between German and Polish Judaism; and on the other hand, because Warsaw has become a double symbol: It stands \u2013 next to Auschwitz \u2013 for the exter\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtion of European Judaism by the Germans and at the same time for Jewish resis\u00adtance against the National Socialist terror.<\/p>\n
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German and Polish Jews look back on almost a thousand years of shared history. It began after the Crusades at the end of the 11th century, and espe\u00adci\u00adally after the plague pogroms in 1350, when Judaism was largely elimi\u00adnated in German terri\u00adto\u00adries. Survivors of the pogroms moved to the Kingdom of Poland, where they were welcomed with open arms. They took with them their language, Yiddish, which had developed around the year 1000 in the Jewish commu\u00adni\u00adties of the Rhine region. Over the centuries, several migra\u00adtions in the opposite direction occurred: Hundreds of thousands of Polish Jews moved to Germany, some of them to Siegen after the First World War. Jewish life in Germany is incon\u00adceivable without Polish Jews: Poli\u00adti\u00adcian Rosa Luxemburg (1871\u20131919), philo\u00adso\u00adpher Martin Buber (1878\u20131965), literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1920\u20132013), and many more were formative for Jewish life in Germany. After World War II, two-thirds of the appro\u00adxi\u00adm\u00adately 20,000 Jews living in Germany had been born in Poland.<\/p>\n
Until Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Warsaw was one of the centers of European Judaism. In 1939, nearly 370,000 Jews lived in the Polish capital, almost a third of the city\u2019s popu\u00adla\u00adtion \u2013 more than in any other city in Europe. In November 1940, the German occupiers estab\u00adlished the Warsaw Ghetto, where they confined up to 450,000 women, men, and children to cramped quarters in inhumane condi\u00adtions before deporting and murdering the inha\u00adbi\u00adtants in the death camps; among them many German Jews. On April 19, 1943, primarily young Jewish women and men defied the depor\u00adta\u00adtion orders and rose up against the occupiers. Although inade\u00adqua\u00adtely armed, the Jewish fighting units fiercely resisted for weeks before the uprising was crushed. Only a few of the appro\u00adxi\u00adm\u00adately 750 active fighters survived the Shoah.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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For the 75th anni\u00adver\u00adsary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on April 19, 2018, Gabriela von Seltmann developed a multi\u00admedia project that attracted thousands of visitors on-site and caused a worldwide sensation: On the facade of a financial high-rise, she resur\u00adrected the Great Synagogue with a three-dimen\u00adsional video instal\u00adla\u00adtion. Built in 1878, the landmark of Warsaw\u2019s once flou\u00adris\u00adhing Jewish life had been destroyed on May 16, 1943, on the orders of SS General J\u00fcrgen Stroop. What had begun with the destruc\u00adtion of the German synago\u00adgues on November 9\/10, 1938, seemed to have come to an end with the demo\u00adli\u00adtion of the Great Synagogue of Warsaw. Stroop cele\u00adbrated the destruc\u00adtion as an \u201eunfor\u00adgettable allegory of the triumph over Judaism.\u201c<\/p>\n
The video instal\u00adla\u00adtion thus serves ulti\u00adm\u00adately not to leave the last word to Hitler and Stroop \u2013 and thus to hatred, death, and destruc\u00adtion \u2013 but to declare publicly and empha\u00adti\u00adcally: Judaism lives!<\/strong> We Jews live \u2013 and we do not hide, but show ourselves in public! And the Yiddish language, which three million Polish Jews spoke before the Shoah, is also alive!<\/p>\n The sound\u00adtrack of the video instal\u00adla\u00adtion features an original histo\u00adrical recording of the cantor of the Great Synagogue, Gershon Sirota (1874\u20131943). Sirota was murdered at the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on April 19, 1943. A day later, Micha\u0142 Klepfisz, a member of the Jewish Fighting Orga\u00adniza\u00adtion and friend of the leader of the ghetto uprising, Marek Edelman (1919\u20132009), was shot. 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because death is a punish\u00adment
because death is a reward
because death is the final rest
because death is eternal rage
These words are dedicated to those who died
Bashert<\/p>\n
because life is a wilder\u00adness and they were savage
because life is an awakening and they were alert
because life is flowering and they blossomed
because life is a struggle and they struggled
because life is a gift and they were free to accept it
These words are dedicated to those who survived
Bashert<\/p>\n<\/div>\n