"Hideout/Kryjówka" - Paweł Passini's stage show about hiding Jews during the war

Jewish women in hiding were given fake documents and their hair was dyed as to resemble “Aryan” hair. Prepared that way, they were able to work – they would provide wool for sweaters, which were later sold and the proceeds were used to support many people.

The show also dramatises the process of collecting information through interviews with people who had to hide during WWII and ponders on why they so surprisingly often refuse to talk about their experiences, asking “Why do you need it? Why do you need to know this?”

The director of the show underlines that they “tell the story of Poles who, during the war, were separated from other Poles only because they were Jewish. This separation exists to this day. For some reason, people in Poland consider talking about being Jewish a sort of “confession”. And many people who we talked to would say: “I still haven't come out to anybody...”

The stage show was inspired by Patrycja Dołowy's “Antypomnik” (“Anti-monument”) initiative, as well as by the opening of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the competition for the “Ratującym – ocaleni” (“The Saved for the Saviours”) monument.

The show will not be performed in a theatre, but in an apartment that served as a hideout, located on the 3 Maja 2/11 Street in Warsaw. Performances as scheduled for 8, 9, 10 and 30 November and 1, 2, 13, 14, 15 December 2014.

Tickets will cost 50zł. They can be bought through the www.eventim.pl website, as well as in the PROSPERO library, chain stores such as EMPIK, Saturn and Media Markt, and in Eventim selling points. Tickets can also be booked through e-mail: [email protected]or via telehone: 22 501 70 02.

More details can be found on the website: nettheatre.com.pl.

The stage show was created under the auspices of the POLIN Museum.