Verzwegen en Vergeten, getuigenissen van een concertvleugel

• 26 January 2025
  • 16:00 – 17:30

Silenced and Forgotten, testimonies from a concert grand piano.

In this film concert story, Yvo Verschoor tells about what Frau Buch, the largest concert grand piano of Huis Midwoud, has experienced in her long life at the place where she stood from 1926 to 2011; a former psychiatric hospital in Berlin-Buch, and about how she ended up here in Midwoud.

Frau Buch witnessed Aktion T4, a sophisticated Nazi program to eliminate as many patients as possible as cheaply and efficiently as possible from 1939 to 1941. Ultimately, this cost the lives of 300,000 people in Nazi Germany. Yvo zooms in with Frau Buch on Werner, one of the many victims, who was murdered at the age of 15, simply because he had epileptic fits every now and then and could not learn very well.

This performance, directed by Maarten Mourik, was made possible in part by the Mondriaan Fund and premiered during corona after 10 years of research by Yvo and more than 25 years of research by Rosemarie Pumb (Berlin-Buch).

The performance draws attention to the hidden horrors during the Nazi regime in the run-up to the Holocaust and will continue to be seen regularly in Huis Midwoud, because exclusion, discrimination and anti-Semitism are unfortunately still very topical and so that more and more people ‘know and do not forget’.

The reactions after the last performance of Concealed and Forgotten were again truly overwhelming!

It doesn’t happen every day that people come to thank you with tears in their eyes after a performance. There were people for the second, third and even fourth time, who had brought others and were again completely emotional and impressed. And that is a great compliment, according to Yvo Verschoor.

A story that is so worth hearing and seeing.

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