This event is part of Eurothalia European Theatre Festival.

On Thursday, September 28, the event will include an artist talk with Mihai Lukács for half an hour, starting at 6 pm..

„Starting from a few written pages and testimonies about Bondy Horovitz, a Jewish survivor of the camps in Transnistria and later a professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Timișoara, I try to understand why he committed suicide in 1970. There was a wave of suicides of Holocaust survivors some 25 years after the event, a notable example being Primo Levi. Last year I learned more details about Bondy, the forgotten character, from Miriam Bercovici. He writes the beginning and the end of Mrs. Bercovici's diary from her adolescence in Transnistria, an important document for understanding the Romanian Holocaust, a document that is currently part of the archive of the Washington Holocaust Museum. I tried to find out what happened to Bondy in Timișoara, after returning from the camp, and to partially tell his story. As he wrote at the end of that diary: 'In the course of two years - unfortunately - fate took giant steps over me. I know more about life than if I had lived a hundred years.' The title of the project is also inspired by another phrase, written by him a week before the deportation to Transnistria. The video essay is also a personal reflection on the memory of the city and the Holocaust survivors who lived in the city.” - Mihai Lukács