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Krakow, Poland
Jan. 30th, 2011 08:38 pm"70 Chairs" by Piotr Lewicki and Kazimierz Latak, art installation
Plac Bohaterów Getta (Square of the Heroes of the Ghetto) formerly Plac Zgody, site of mass murder and deportations during the liquidation of the ghetto in 1942
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/zgody.html
Piotr Lewicki says: "First, a quarter of the town's residents had to leave their homes and go to the closed-off area of Podgórze. Then the ghetto was reduced in size, and the people were divided according to whether or not they could work, whether they were sick or healthy etc. As a result people were constantly resettling, bringing all their belongings with them. They also took chairs with them, the furniture closest to the body. When the ghetto was liquidated, the Jews had to move to the Płaszów camp, and anything that wasn't needed remained in the square. We wanted to draw reference to that moment precisely. There must have been an incredible silence, it must have been completely empty."
Plac Bohaterów Getta (Square of the Heroes of the Ghetto) formerly Plac Zgody, site of mass murder and deportations during the liquidation of the ghetto in 1942
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/zgody.html
Piotr Lewicki says: "First, a quarter of the town's residents had to leave their homes and go to the closed-off area of Podgórze. Then the ghetto was reduced in size, and the people were divided according to whether or not they could work, whether they were sick or healthy etc. As a result people were constantly resettling, bringing all their belongings with them. They also took chairs with them, the furniture closest to the body. When the ghetto was liquidated, the Jews had to move to the Płaszów camp, and anything that wasn't needed remained in the square. We wanted to draw reference to that moment precisely. There must have been an incredible silence, it must have been completely empty."