Light was projected onto a modern glass building in the place where the Great Synagogue of Warsaw used to stand, commemorating the Ghetto Uprising of 1943.
The Great Synagogue of Warsaw, destroyed by German forces during World War II, was recreated virtually with light April 18 as part of anniversary commemorations of the 1943 uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto.
"Awaking memory in Poland to me also means to teach empathy, because when there is empathy there is no fear anymore," Von Seltmann said. Von Seltmann's grandfather was a Polish school director killed at Auschwitz along with many other members of the Polish intelligentsia. Her husband, whose last name she has taken, is the grandson of one of the SS officers who inflicted atrocities on occupied Poland. The couple have written and spoken publicly about their own love story, framing it as a story of generational reconciliation.
The Warsaw Ghetto uprising broke out April 19, 1943, when about 750 young Jewish fighters armed with just pistols and fuel bottles attacked a much larger, heavily armed German force that was"liquidating" the ghetto, meaning sending its inhabitants to the Treblinka death camp.
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