finissage expositie en lezing Verhaal van mijn vader

On the last day and at the conclusion of the project Story of my father and the exhibition Voices of the Razzia, poems will be recited. Participants of the workshop Spoken Word of the Art and Vliegfabriek will give their presentation on 'Freedom'. And there will be a closing lecture.

Part of the project 'My father's story. Places of separation become places of connection'. This focuses on the great raid of Rotterdam and Schiedam, which took place 80 years ago this year, on 10 and 11 November 1944. Within two days, 52,000 boys and men, aged 17 to 40, were deported to the East of the Netherlands and Germany via 11 collection points. It would turn out to be the largest raid for forced labour in the Netherlands. An estimated 500 men did not survive. The returned men, some of whom were still boys, had experienced a lot, but had mostly kept quiet about what had happened to them.