Polish artist’s controversial commemoration of the Jedwabne killing of Jews sixty nine years ago.
Forty year-old Rałaf Betlejewski is one of Poland’s best known performance artists. Having learnt about Jedwabne he realized how ignorant he was about the common history of Poles and Jews.
‘I didn’t know a single Jew and yet I somehow believed in all the stereotypes’, he said in an interview. Having made a visit to Jedwabne six years ago, Betlejewski started thinking about projects commemorating Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The starting point for the first of them were murals in Polish cities with the message ‘I miss you, Jew’.
Click on the audio icon above to listen to the report on Rafał Betlejewski’s current project.
Related link: Rediscovering Poland's Jewish past , polishradio.pl 8.03.2010