Ilse

The show begins with a Ruth Elias, survivor of Theresienstadt and Auschwitz who, now grown, explains her experiences to her grandchildren. This allows us to flashback to life in the ghetto and how he met Ilse Weber. To narrow it down to a specific space-time, it begins with the preparations for the visit that the envoys of the international Red Cross have to make to the ghetto . After this visit, many of the protagonists were deported and killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz, where our story ends. In between you can see the small personal stories of Ilse, who writes poems and letters to her son who has been saved, Hanus, as well as Ruth’s pregnancy just before she is sent to Auschwitz. Far from easy melodrama, this will be a presentation of the facts from the points of view of the two women and the children they cared for. The end will be a song of peace and not a embodiment of the human drama.

Book by Roger Padullés

Music by Jordi Domènech

Traginart Ensemble

Voices – Friends of the Union Children’s Choir

Josep Vila Jover, director