This performance is based on real life events, bringing to life the painful, incomprehensible history of the Holocaust. This is the period when the mass murders of Jews planned and carried out by the Hitlerites took place, when one of Hitler's most important aspirations was the destruction of the Jewish people.
During the war years, after the Nazis occupied the country, Icchok was expelled together with his parents and other Jews to the ghetto established in the old town of Vilnius. There he kept a diary in his native Yiddish in a simple school notebook. The year 1941... "life has never been so cheerful, warm and carefree as this summer..." - these are the first words of an energetic fourteen-year-old full of joy of life. However, on such an enthusiastic note, the story is just beginning. After a few moments... "there is a restless gasp from the people with whom you are thrown in a pile, who are equally uprooted from their homes and forced to save their lives at any cost, even at the expense of the lives of their other brothers... To save their own life and don't try to defend yourself.."
The show is unique in that it is based on a real story of a young man. In the ghetto guarded by the Germans, the truth is revealed about the reality of hunger, cold, poverty, the daily struggle for existence, overcrowded rooms and the reality of hunger, violence and humiliation. A world in which, with a glance, escorting gray, tired, hungry "people" to where they will never return... Ichchok manages to believe in the yellow certificate of "life"..
Today we forget how rich we are, we often don't appreciate what we have and we want more. If we remember the painful history of the country, we will realize that once a person fought for a bite of bread - not in order to eat deliciously, but in order to survive... being afraid, suffering violence, being raped... the most important thing is to live!
Everyone who leaves the show will think how lucky they are to enjoy a life in which they have the right to grow, to achieve, to create - to simply be here, now, with those they love.
