The No Name Theatre (at the Grodzka Gate in Lublin, Poland)

No Name Theatre actors
arrived in Poland with no idea
of the Jewish community that thrived before them.

Their performance transformed—
into real stories of trauma and tragedy,
with glimpses of light.
Made whole by glass plate negatives
that restored forgotten faces and celebrations.

The Maharshal Synagogue once held 3,500 souls.
Jewish neighborhoods teeming

Forced exits from the stage of their lives—
to Bełżec. To Majdanek.
Their world buried beneath parking lots and parks.

43,000 files with their names—
some empty, some full,
filled by archives, by survivors,
by descendants from faraway places.

How do you make absence present?
You become an actor—
to carry their faith,
and share their world.