Memorial place for Holocaust victims - Zelený les is located on Národná ul. (next to the evangelical parsonage) in the place where the family of Jakub Grünwald, a businessman of Jewish origin, lived until 1941. Annual exhibitions and concerts in the Green Forest are organized by OZ Poľné ľalie as a reminder of the Day of Victims of the Holocaust and Racial Violence (September 9). The Green Forest is not just a memorial, but a living community place.
This year, we cordially invite you to the Zelené les to the PORAJMOS cultural event, which will include a concert by the renowned Armenian musician (world music) Karin Sarkisyan and an exhibition of a prominent figure in Slovak photography - Tibor Huszár "Lens to the soul" curated by Silvia L. Čúzyová. This year's event is dedicated to the little-known Roma holocaust, which is commemorated in Slovakia every year on August 2, and which tries to draw our attention to the extermination of the "Gypsy concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau" 80 years ago on the night of August 2-3, 1944.
Program August 31 (Saturday) 2024, 6:00 p.m.
Karin Sarkisian concert
Accompanying program:
Genocide of Roma in Slovakia
Monika Beňová, evangelical parish priest in the ECAV Rankovce church, where she and her husband devote themselves to the mission among the Roma
Program for September 8 (Sunday) 2024, 4:00 p.m.
opening of the exhibition Tibor Huszár - "Lens to the soul," curator: Silvia L. Čúzyová
How do you get to the Green Forest?
GPS: 48.3515514N, 17.3235289
Public transport: stop Modra, Národná (line: 540, 550, 506, 539)
Karin Sarkisian
Karin Sarkisyan is a native of Yerevan and later moved to Slovakia. He collects, arranges and interprets folk songs. On the Slovak music scene, he represents an original combination of piano playing and a specific vocal performance. Sarkisjan is a sought-after artist for various musical groups and thus she is a guest at the concerts of groups such as Balkanansambel, Bashavel or Pressburger Klezmer Band. She is also dedicated to scenic music (she collaborated with the Slovak National Theatre, the Martin Chamber Theater and others). She presented herself as one of the stars of the big klezmer festivals in Lviv and St. Petersburg, where her interpretation of Yiddish songs was highly appreciated by legends such as Lorin Sklamberg and Michael Alpert. He is among the top performers of world music in Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
Tibor Huszár – A lens into the soul
"Tibor Huszár has been photographing Roma for decades, dominantly at home in all corners of Slovakia. He was fascinated by the unyielding ethnic group with whom we share a common space since time immemorial. In the past, they were referred to as gypsies, which is also the name of his numerous photographic series. It was an initiatory and important cycle that brought him substantial professional attention, despite the fact that it was a topic already unmistakably "occupied" by the world-famous Czech photographer Josef Koudelk.
The exhibition "Tibor Huszár - Lens to the soul" presents a subtle collection of iconic black and white images on the theme of "Gypsies". It is a fragment from a collection of hundreds of photographs taken over 40 years of work. But these are precisely the photos that the author himself repeatedly selected as representative images for his various publications on this topic.
However, from 2013 (the year of his death) until 2023, Huszár's work could not be exhibited or seen outside of his books. That is why it is an extraordinary event that after a 10-year break, it is possible to resume in cooperation with Huszár's heirs, to his author's exhibitions and in the noble environment of the devotional garden Zelený les in Modra-Kráľová, to recall the famous photos from the cycle "Gypsies."
Source: OZ Poľné lilie
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