"Really nice footage, even if i did not understand a word ;) Have to say as a modern citizien of Lodz that i am really sorry that curently our city misses so much of it's past. In 1939 one of four Lodz citizens was Jewish, there also was a lots of Russians and Germans. Poles as me were only in about 30%. During the war Germans destroyed almost all sinagogues.Some of them were really unique architecture.I hope Jews will come back sometime to Lodz, and someday we will be able to live together again"
That's strange enough what I feel in Lodz which is obviously so much a Jewish city... still... but without really having a Jewish community who matter...
Something is missing...
They say the Poles where indifferent about the fate of the Jews in WW II, and even hostile... If so, tragic choice at the wrong moment. But if not, what will had been able to do them against the absolute brutality and virulent aggression of the Nazis?
The Polish left wing activist and politician Sierakowski has formulated this feelings in a compelling monologue in an empty stadion in Warsaw. There he is an actor in a performance, so in an art piece, called 'Mary Koszmary' (Nightmares) by Yeal Bartana. (I mentioned this already earlier, see Mir i Wieza (Wall and Tower) for a description and more details)
The nice thing is that Stawomir Sierakowski, although being an actor at that very moment, exactly says what he actually means and stands for...
Yeal Bartana expresses the mutual bond from Polish society and the Jews also in another symbol...
a combination of the Polish eagle with the star of David....
but.... BUT!.... Love is...
Get that stinking star of David OFF that Polish eagle.
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