We look back on a great edition of the seventh edition of Theatre of Remembrance, an international theatre event in the context of 27 January. This day has been declared International Holocaust Remembrance Day by the United Nations. In several European countries, young people got involved in creating a performance about the Second World War, thus adding meaning to this day. This year, there were performances in Goleniow, Brussels, Prague, Budapest, Turin, Warsaw, Bratislava (27/1) and Amsterdam (28/1).

Theatre of Remembrance
In seven different European cities, young people accompanied by theatre-makers created a performance about their city at the time of the Second World War. They interacted with wartime survivors and eyewitnesses, and related to the places in their city that played an important role during the war. In Prague, for example, a group of young people played at the Fair Trade Palace, which during the war was a Nazi assembly point for Jews deported to concentration camps.
In Budapest, a group of 17 young people asked the question: where do you feel safe? Based on the stories of five female Holocaust survivors, they took the audience through different spaces.

Watch the after movie below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI8iDs6rmbE

Youth performance Amsterdam
Following the National Holocaust Commemoration at the Spiegelmonument in Amsterdam, there was a revival of the youth performance ERVE. Led by theatre-makers Sofia de Valk and Jorn Laponder, young people talked to older people about what it was like to be young during wartime. ERVE is about the memories from that time, and what the younger generation inherits from it.

‘It is a sensitive performance, delivered by the youngsters with respectful timidity, but which naturally cannot fail to move because of its weighty context’ according to Theaterkrant. Nieuw Amsterdams Peil’s reportage writes ‘This is not a history book or some documentary. You can feel the trauma.’