January 24, 2012, 7 p.m.
Museum of the City of Lodz (15 Ogrodowa Street)
Lecture by Rabbi Sacha Pecaric from New York:
The Book of Psalms - Dialogue of Christianity and Judaism. What do we share, what makes us different?

The Marek Edelman Dialogue Center and The Embassy of the Republic of Austria would like to invite you to Łódz on 11 – 12 January 2012 to the commemoration of the 70th ANNIVESARY OF THE LIQUIDATION OF THE GYPSY CAMP IN THE LITZMANNSTADT GHETTO

One of the lesser-known moments in the history of the Litzmannstadt ghetto was the tragic fate of 19 953 Jews from Western Europe, brought to the ghetto in the autumn of 1941. They came from middle-class circles in Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Emden, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and Luxembourg. The deportation was the result of the Nazi policy of "cleansing" the Third Reich and occupied territories of Jews. The reason for that action was an attempt to hide the cruelty committed against Jews from the German people.

On October 25, 2011, the Łódź  Philharmonic will perform a "Concert from the Past." It will be dedicated to Jews from the cities in the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany and Luxembourg, who were brought to the Litzmannstadt ghetto exactly 70 years ago, in the autumn of 1941. Amongst them were prominent musicians from Vienna, Berlin or Prague. Tragically, most artists brought to Łódź ghetto by Germans died from exhaustion, disease or were murdered in death camps in Auschwitz and Kulmhof. The Artur Rubinstein Łódź Philharmonic Orchestra, along with invited guests, will reenact on of the concerts played in the Łódź ghetto.