On the occasion of the International Day of Remembrance of Holocaust Victims and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp (27 January 1945), the Theatre of the Brussels Institute of Culture hosted the theatrical performance of 'The Swimmer of Auschwitz', written and directed by Luca De Bei. The Italian actor Raoul Bova, in Brussels for the only international performance, gave voice and body to the two protagonists of a true story, the French swimmer of Jewish origin, Alfred Nakache, and the Austrian psychoanalyst, also of Jewish origin, Viktor Frankl, both interned in Auschwitz, both bearers of a message of unwavering determination, hope and unity among European peoples.
As recalled by the Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, in the video message that was broadcast before the play, 'it is our duty to continue to remember. Not only out of respect for the victims of the past, but above all for ourselves, for the future of our children, so that the horror of the Holocaust is never repeated and that every form and every manifestation of anti-Semitism is definitively abandoned in the world,' stressed the Italian Ambassador to Belgium, Federica Favi, opening the evening before an audience of around 350 people.
"An artistic work that is an act of love for the future in a European perspective: an Italian actor playing a French and an Austrian character," added the Director of the Brussels Institute of Culture, Pierre Di Toro. "A message that tells us how having lost all 'having' (property, fame and other superfluous things), the human being is left with 'being' and his hope in the future. A story that reminds us, as Primo Levi wrote, that if understanding is impossible, knowing is necessary'.
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