Yesterday evening, January 27, for Remembrance Day, the Puccini theater in Merano hosted the national premiere of an Israeli show on the initiative of the Municipality, which accepted the proposal of the Shoah historian Antonella Tiburzi, professor of history teaching in Bressanone.
The theater was guarded by the police for fear of anti-Semitic demonstrations. “Whistle. My mother was Mengele’s secretary”, this is the title, has as its protagonist the daughter of the Jewish secretary of Doctor Mengele, the angel of death who passed through Merano in her escape after the war.
The children of Holocaust survivors have often never received a caress or a smile. They pay the price for the pain that drained the soul of their parents, they carry invisible wounds within themselves. This is what happens to the protagonist, the painter Tami.
For just one hour on stage, the talented Israeli actress Hadar Galron speaks with the ghosts that populate her existence, her mother who witnessed the atrocities of Auschwitz and her husband who died in an accident. With the help of a few props, Tami looks back on her affectionless childhood, but she also reclaims her right to love and happiness.
The direction is signed by Hannah Vazan Grunwald, the script is a reworking of the autobiographical book by Jakob Buchan by the same actress Hadar Galron.
The English-language show was free to enter and was accompanied by surtitles in Italian and German.
In the report Emanuela Albieri, councilor for culture of the municipality of Merano, recalls how the city has a sad record: it was the first Italian center to suffer the round-ups and deportation of Jews after 8 September 1943.
Credit: rainews.it