Written, directed and performed by Michael Gieleta
A project commissioned by ARKIVET Peace and Human Rights Centre, Norway
20 January 2022
“What does it feel like to be your extended family’s sole storyteller after the Holocaust? As the survivors of the Second World War genocide are passing on, it falls on the second generation to keep the memory of this darkest chapter of human history alive.
Michael Gieleta is a theatre and opera director who has been telling stories for a living his entire life. But there is one story he has never told: The story behind why he has no extended family. The story behind why he, as so many in his network, are families of one. The story of all the family photos that will never be taken, great grand children that will never be born and family dinners that can never happen.
80 years after the Nazi Party came up with the “Final Solution” to the “Jewish Question”, Michael Gieleta has decided to tell the one story he has always found too painful to tell. This film, is the beginning.”
Written, directed and performed by Michael Gieleta