"Inferno a Treblinka" is a musical-theatrical performance dedicated to International Holocaust Remembrance Day, telling the last hour of a deportee's life in the Treblinka extermination camp: from arrival by train to the gas chambers, with the duration of the performance coinciding with the real time of the events described.
The reciting voice, Marina Massironi, recalls those dramatic moments through the reading of texts freely drawn from Vasilij Grossman's literary work: "The Hell of Treblinka." These lucid and gruesome pages—written by someone who personally knew the few surviving witnesses and the perpetrators of that place—bring the audience inside the camp, side by side with a "cargo" of victims in their final steps toward inexorable death.
The performance also leaves space for poetry through several verses freely taken from the poetry collection "The Song of the Murdered Jewish People" by Itzhak Katzenelson, a poet and victim of the Holocaust. The voice alternates during the performance with the sound of a chamber ensemble, allowing the music of great composers such as Bach, Shostakovich, Bruch, and Bloch to express what words cannot convey.