Thursday, 5/22/2025
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In the Displaced Persons Camp near the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, up to 12,000 Jewish people who had survived the Holocaust came together in the late 1940s. Many embarked on their journey to Palestine from there. The significance of the camp for the revival of Jewish life in Germany after 1945 and the founding of the State of Israel is the central motivation for a theater project in which artists from Germany and Israel engage with the complexity of history. The historical starting point of the narrative is a group of young theater artists who come together in the DP camp to form the KAZET theater. In hopes of safety and peace, they each prepare for emigration to Israel. 65 years later, the Israeli-born daughter of one of those artists experiences, during a friendly encounter with a Palestinian, how the past continues to resonate and even threatens the existence of both younger generations. And she becomes aware of how little she knows about her own heritage – and about that of the other person. Her search for her mother's silenced history leads her to the question: What has become of the hopes, new beginnings, and fresh starts?

The multi-generational story examines the interplay of violence, silence, and displacement. The yearning for peace connects the characters as well as the artistically involved individuals.

Date: 22.05.2025

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