International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Performances and Conversations with Holocaust Researchers at the Habima Theater Israel today

Today, 77 years ago, the Auschwitz extermination camp was liberated from the Nazis, and this date, January 27, became International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

To mark this day, it was decided at the Habima Theater to dedicate all the plays that will be on the subject of the Holocaust today, as well as to have a dialogue with the audience on the subject.

The four plays that will be staged today are a solo performance by the actor Ben Josipovic, called "The Monster of Memory," based on a book by Yishai Sarid that deals with trips to Poland;

"Talk About Their Location," a play written by Nava Semel the deceased, starring Ruby Porat-Shoval and Sandra Sadeh;

"Masada 1942", a musical play based on a historical event in the Warsaw ghetto;

And "Curves," a play by Martin Sherman about a love story between two men in Nazi Germany.

At the end of each play, there will be a dialogue that will deal with the subject of the play, and this is the responsibility of Dr. Yoel Raphael, a senior researcher at the Institute for Holocaust Studies at Bar-Ilan University.

"This day is part of the Israeli collective memory, and we are part of the international community, so we decided to dedicate all the plays today to the Holocaust," says Habima CEO Noam Semel. In the plays: 'Masada 1942' touches on a revolt within the Warsaw ghetto, 'Monster of Remembrance' defies the trips to Poland, 'Talk about their whereabouts' talks about Holocaust survivors and their absorption in the country, and 'Curves' touches on the Holocaust of the LGBT community for the first time.

According to Dr. Raphael, "Habima Theater's unique collaboration with Bar-Ilan University makes it possible to bring the fruits of academic research to the general public directly.

"Each of the plays is based on a comprehensive study done by each of the playwrights."

Raphael added that "International Holocaust Remembrance Day is something that grew up at the UN in the 2000s.

Do quiet work behind the scenes to make it happen.

The importance of this day is very great, because although the liberation of Auschwitz is connected to us as Jews, it was not carried out by us.

It was carried out by the Red Army, and this is the day the world commemorates the Holocaust.

Israel has a unique Holocaust Day on a different date (27 Nissan, MK), and International Holocaust Remembrance Day does not replace Holocaust Day for us.

In Israel, they have only begun to refer to this date in recent years. "

Raphael will himself direct the discourse that will take place after the play "Curves": "This is a play that deals with the attitude of the Nazi government towards the LGBT people.

As far as the Nazis were concerned, someone from the LGBT community was less than Jewish, at least up to a point when Jews became the first target. I will discuss with the audience what led to the Jews becoming the first target of the Nazis, Kia even before the war, and whether the treatment of LGBT people was part of the matter of the conception of the pure Aryan race.

"After the play 'Masada 1942', there will be a dialogue that will deal with the fact that during the evacuation of the Warsaw Ghetto, the Nazis demanded that the Jewish theater in the ghetto stage a play.

"The discussion that will take place after the play 'Talk about their whereabouts' will deal with the importance of the 'Section for the Search for Relatives', which was broadcast for decades on Kol Yisrael after the establishment of the state, and was intended for Holocaust survivors. To Poland. "

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