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Visiting the Crime Scene

Summary/Abstract: A multi-content interpretation of a poem by Piotr Mitzner: Dom Słów (House of Words), from the volume: Polak Mały (A Polish Child, 2016), dedicated to Tomasz Pietrasiewicz – founder and director of the “Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” Centre. As interpreted by the authors of the article Mitzner’s poem fills a poetic gap in narrations about the activity of the Centre and its seats, in particular the more recent one – Dom Słów (House of Words, in Żmigród Street) and in a specific way – i.e. by resorting to poetic abbreviation – condenses the mission fulfilled by Lublin institutions involved in regaining memory about the town’s Jewish residents. Mitzner described a place where during the inter-war period the foundations of both cultures were reinforced both literally and metaphorically, and which was the site of print shops; today, the “Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre” Centre brings us closer to the history and arcana of the art of printing and the book as well as the history of an independent publishing movement in 1976–1989, topics on which the House of Words concentrates its diverse educational activity. The Warsaw-based poet wrote predominantly about the force of the word, capable of realigning a shattered world. The title of the sketch also refers to becoming re-acquainted with the site a catastrophe – the Holocaust of the Lublin Jews.

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