FILM INSTALLATION BY WOJCIECH OLEJNICZAK

This artistic concept was inspired by the letters sent from Zbąszyń by a teenager Gerturda Schiffman to her brother Salo at the time of relocation. Salo Schiffman survived the war and he currently lives in Israel.

A conversation with him, which took place in February 2008, proved that time is not an ally of memory. The past fades away making way for the present moment. Consequently, the film part of the project is more of an attempt to put together dispersed pieces of pictures, words, memories, documents...

PHOTO EXHIBITION BY ERWIN SCHENKELBACH

For ten months Jews were departing from the Zbąszyń railway station in all directions to seek their new home. In the old hall of the Zbąszyń railway station, there will be an exhibition of - among others - photograms of an empty and forgotten railway station in Jerusalem. They are black and white, large format metaphors of a human fate, longing, and awaiting the return from a long journey.

PRESENTATION OF THE MAP-PAINTING BY WOJCIECH OLEJNICZAK

Among the old pictures from 1938, obtained thanks to the courtesy of many people and institutions, a “MAP OF THE WORLD” is presented with a Hebrew inscription of the traditional Jewish farewell. The painting is composed of thousands of pieces cut out from physical maps of Europe. They were meticulously assembled anew as if they were trying to tell the story of thousands of small episodes entangled in the madness of the forced journey.

And as in gothic cathedrals, the “Jerusalem Road” leads here to the centre of the World...

“with walls of a temple hill”.