Cyprus Theatre Organisation - Yannis Kalavrianos
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by Tadeusz Slobodzianek
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When you get down to it, can everyone write History to suit themselves?
On 10 July 1941, the Jewish inhabitants of the city of Jedwabne in Poland were rounded up in the central square, marched to a barn and murdered. The official report blamed the Nazis for carrying out the atrocity, but 60 years later an investigation by the film-maker Agnieszka Arnold showed that the responsibility for the massacre lay not with the Germans, but with the victims’ fellow townsfolk and neighbours, Catholic Poles. As a result of the controversy that followed, the official History was amended and the President issued an apology and admitted that a new type of holocaust had taken place there: the murder of neighbour by neighbour.
In Tadeusz Slobodzianek’s play, which has won international accolades (Best Work of Polish Literature 2010-Nike Literary Award), the protagonists are ten primary school children from Jedwabne. In the seven decades covered by their accounts, they give a voice to those deprived of voices and restore the truth that lay buried for almost 60 years. In so doing, they turn Jedwabne into a symbol of ‘gagged History’.
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