On 26 January at 15:30 the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day will host the opening of the historical documentary exhibition Forgotten Victims. The focus of this Russian-German-British project are the events that took place at the Zmievskaya Balka site in Rostov-on-Don, where in August 1942 the Nazis massacred over twenty thousand people, as well as the destinies of those citizens deported to Germany from the city - prisoners of war and patients from a local psychiatric hospital during the years of occupation. The exhibition, curated by Russia's Holocaust Centre, was presented in August 2017 in Berlin (the German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst), Rostov-on-Don (as part of events marking seventy-five years since the tragedy) and Moscow (the Central House of Writers). In 2018 the exhibition will travel to Glasgow and other cities in Great Britain.
The opening ceremony will feature welcome speeches by Consul General of Germany in St Petersburg Dr Eltje Aderhold and Consul General of Israel in St Petersburg Olga Slov. The project is being presented by Roman Zhugin, a research worker of Russia's Holocaust Centre.
At 14.00 the opening ceremony will be preceded by an excursion for school-pupils, students and teachers from the city's academic institutions that will be conducted by young excursion leaders from St Petersburg's School No 700, where the exhibition was held for one month. At 15.00 Deputy Head of Mission of the Consulate General of The Netherlands in St Petersburg Hugo Brouwer will present a preview of the documentary Frid. Frank, detailing the story of Grigory Frid's opera The Diary of Anne Frank.
At 15.30 the foyer of the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre will host the grand opening ceremony of the exhibition Forgotten Victims.
At 16.00 at the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre there will be a performance of Grigory Frid's mono-opera The Diary of Anne Frank staged by Mstislav Pentkovsky.
For the literary basis of his libretto Grigory Frid used the actual text of Anne Frank's diary translated from Dutch into Russian by Rita Rait-Kovaleva. Not changing a single word in the document, the composer merely reduced it to twenty-one episodes compacted into four scenes. Since its premiere in 1972 the mono-opera The Diary of Anne Frank has been performed several times in Russia, as well as in Germany, Austria, Sweden, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Thailand and has attained incredible popularity in the USA and The Netherlands.
Entry for the press to the opening of the exhibition will be via the main entrance of the Concert Hall of the Mariinsky Theatre (37 Dekabristov St) from 14.30.
Accreditation is mandatory.
Please confirm your accreditation by phoning +7 (812) 7144164 or e-mail press@mariinsky.ru
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