The Music of Places: The Hell of Treblinka

“A desolate place that the men of the Gestapo, with the approval of Reichsführer of the SS Heinrich Himmler, chose to build the gallows par excellence. There the main factory of death of the SS was erected: the Treblinka concentration camp. Today the witnesses are beginning to speak, the earth and the stones are raising their cries – loudly. And before the collective conscience of the world, before the eyes of all humanity, we can retrace, step by step, the circles of a hell, that of Treblinka, compared to which Dante’s Inferno is an innocent joke of Satan.” So wrote Vasily Grossman, a war correspondent for the Red Army, in 1944, after the liberation of the Treblinka camp, the most terrible Nazi death machine. Two camps, No. 1, a concentration camp with inhumane conditions for prisoners of various nationalities, especially Poles, but almost incomparable to No. 2, and No. 3, a concentration camp with inhumane conditions for prisoners of various nationalities, especially Poles, but almost incomparable to No. 4. 2, the one for the Jews: «In the new camp nothing was designed for life, everything was intended for death.»

Project curated by Erik Battaglia and Claudio Voghera
Narrator: Olivia Manescalchi
Texts from The Inferno of Treblinka by Vasily Grossman
Music by Ludwig van Beethoven

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