“The Cry of Silence” brings together in its cast Roxana Guttman, Geni Brenda Vexler, Mirela Nicolau, Veaceslav Grosu, Lucian Ionescu, Mihai Nițu, Andrei Miercure, Vlad Nicolici and Filip Popescu, with the participation of the State Jewish Theatre Orchestra. The stage manager is Radu Iacob, the prompter Daria Martau, and the script and direction are by Andrei Munteanu.
“We came out of the death camps, body and soul crushed, after enduring the most terrible experience history has ever known. After losses beyond description - my family, my childhood, my friends - I was overwhelmed by a pain that was both of the soul and of the body.” Renee Kochman (Renia Baff), who lived at the children’s home in Blankenese, Hamburg, Germany
After the end of the Second World War, the scale of the tragedy of the Holocaust began to reveal itself in full. Among the six million victims were some one and a half million Jewish children.
Tens of thousands of children survived, but for many of them childhood had ended in ghettos, camps, hiding places or on the roads of deportation. They had lost their parents, their homes and their identity; they had been deprived of school, of play and of any sense of safety. Some had survived under false identities, learning to keep silent, to hide and to trust no one.
The stories of these children are the foundation of “The Cry of Silence”, an attempt to remind our contemporaries of the horrors of war and of the tragedies set off by the trivialising of human experience, a production about lost childhood, survival and the strength to rebuild, and at the same time an act of remembrance meant to keep alive the testimony of the victims of the Holocaust and to remind us of our responsibility never to make light of human suffering.
The performance is in Romanian, and the songs are sung in Yiddish.
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