Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Friday, January 6, 2012
“Schmitzler's People”. DSH, January 13
Schmitzler’s People. Inhabitants of the Pre-war
Snyatyn
The exhibition illustrates social relationships
and identity issues on the cultural borderland, based on the history of Snyatyn
– a town in Eastern Galicia. Before the Second World War it was inhabited by a multicultural
community which included Ukrainians, Jews, Poles, Armenians and Germans.
Photographs from family albums depict the past life of the town, its
institutions, relationships in the neighbourhood and leisure. The majority of
the photographs were taken by Ignacy Schmitzler, a Jewish photographer. People
of various nationalities and positions in the social hierarchy had their
photographs taken at his studio. Schmitzler – a photographic chronicler of the
town – will lead the viewer along the streets of Snyatyn where its inhabitants
lived and met.
The exhibition is
based on memory research that uses new, Internet forms of communication, namely
social networking sites and genealogical portals.
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Sunday, December 18, 2011
“Schmitzler's People”. DSH, January 13 – March 18, 2012
“So if a non-Jewish girl came to visit me, they
usually came for matematyczne zadania [math problems]. My mother – probably all
Jewish women – they treat people: come in, you have to eat something I baked.
Helka, Helka Nowożeniuk, said ‘thank you’ – ‘dziękuję’ – in Polish. And my
mother translated from Jewish to Polish; she didn’t know Polish: ‘za mało’ [too
little]. My mother wanted to say ‘it’s too little to thank for, don’t thank me’.
So Helka went over and kissed her hand, saying: ‘całuję rączki’ [kiss your
hand, madam]. I saw it’s no good… and my mother said again: ‘to za mało’. I
started to laugh.”
„Jeśli jakaś dziewczyna, która
nie była Żydówką przychodziła do mnie, to zwykle na ‘matematyczne zadania’. Moja
matka, pewnie tak jak wszystkie Żydówki, podejmowała gości: wejdź, coś upiekłam – musisz spróbować . Helka, Helka Nowożeniuk, odpowiedziała po polsku –
‘dziękuję’. I moja matka przetłumaczyła z jidysz na polski, nie znała
polskiego: ‘za mało’. Chciała powiedzieć ‘nie ma za co, nie dziękuj’. Więc Helka
podeszła i pocałowała ją w rękę, mówiąc: ‘całuję rączki’. Widziałam, że nie
jest dobrze… a moja matka powiedziała jeszcze raz: ‘to za mało’. Zaczęłam się
śmiać.”
Thursday, December 8, 2011
“Schmitzler's People”. DSH, January 2012
“Sokół.
This was the Polish organization. And they didn’t let us go here. They had a
tennis court, a wonderful tennis court. And I used to look always and I was
angry, ha-ha, I was so angry. They didn’t let us go in and play tennis.
Szlachta…[nobility]”
„Sokół. To była polska
organizacja. Nie wpuszczali nas tutaj. Mieli swój kort tenisowy, wspaniały
kort. Zawsze na niego patrzyłem i byłem zły, ha ha, taki zły. Nie wpuszczali nas tutaj, nie
dali zagrać. Szlachta... ”
Saturday, December 3, 2011
“Schmitzler's People”. DSH, January 2012
„Poliaky wony usi keruwaly,
naczal’nykamy buly. Dido rozkazuwaw, szo za Pol’szczi dobre bulo żyty. Dobre.
Nu, chuże, hirszoho nema wid cych Ruskich. Usio sowiety robyly. Ta jak tut każut: Moskali. ”
“Poles were in charge, they were leaders. My
grandpa told me living under Polish rule was fine. Good. Well, nothing’s worse
than Russki. All [bad] was done by the Soviets. Moskali, as they call them
here.”
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
“Schmitzler's People”. DSH, January 2012
„Ty możesz sądzić, czy zamożni, czy ne zamożni byli moi rodzicy. Ja w szubi, w kożuszku. Mama – w karakuliewij szubi toże, w kapeliuszu, to dziadzio też worotnik, kownir taki, a tato też w kapeluszu. A ot za ich spynoju idzie kobieta. Ubrana tak, jak wtenczas ludzie chodzili. Można z tego coś sądzić, iz tych fotografij.”
“You may guess whether my parents were well-off or not. I’m wearing a fur coat. My mom’s wearing an astrakhan coat, a hat, my grandpa a collar, my dad a hat. There is a woman walking behind them. She is dressed in a way people used to dress those days. It could be gathered, from these photographs.”
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