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Pomfino Chair, Redro y Juana, 2017

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Cesca Chair, Marcel Breuer, 1928

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"Empty Chairs" Memorial located in Zgody Square in Krakow, Poland 

"Zgody Square began as quiet, little market, inconsequential in the larger scale of Krakow. Goods could be bought and sold there, and people would pass through, leaving and returning as they pleased. This would all change, however. In 1939, Poland fell under Nazi Rule. This was the beginning of a painful chapter in world history, but also in the history of Zgody Square, as it would soon be marked by a large gate with the Star of David.  

Anti-Semitism in the Third Reich would lead to the formation of ghettoes in Poland. In these locations, Jewish Populations were to be segregated and kept apart from the wider populace; leaving was not permitted. Thus, the ghettoes were prisons of a different kind. Zgody Square found itself at the centre of one such ghetto. During this troublesome period, the Square would be many other things aside from a market. 
It would become a place for its new resident’s furniture to be piled up and discarded. It would become a site of humiliation and suffering. And yet, it would also become an escape from crowded tenements and cramped living conditions. In Zgody Square, the ghetto’s residents could meet and trade goods. Information could be passed, and some semblance of a community could be formed. However, all of this would soon be overshadowed, when the Square was to become an integral part in the implementation of the Final Solution in Krakow. 

It was in Zgody Square that selections would be made; decisions that for the residents of the ghetto meant life or death. Those selected to leave the ghetto were boarded onto trains and sent either to Płaszów, Belzec, or Auschwitz. Some would not even make it to the train; the elderly, sick and young were often executed in the streets, in their homes, or even on the square itself. An order to empty the ghetto completely would soon be given. This troubling chapter in the Square’s history is captured in Stephen Spielberg’s Schindler’s List. Most of the residents would meet their end in the gas chambers of Auschwitz Birkenau, or worked to death in the camps of Płaszów and Belzec. The square nonetheless, would be rendered painfully empty following this order.

The chairs are empty . . .They are stark and bold, and profound in their lack of adornment.

Absence was all that was left following the war. The Jewish Population of Krakow once numbered 60,000. Following the Nazi regime, only 5,000 remained. Empty chairs come then to define an empty city. "

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Empty chairs for the Gator snacks.  French Market, New Orleans.

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