New York & Naples Harbors of Dialogue
Reading of the Names
Anti-Fascism and Resistance Among Italian Jews
JAN 21 | New York & Naples: Harbors of Dialogue
La Scuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi, 406 East 67th Street
The program is open to students and teachers of New York City public and private schools. For information contact La Scuola d’Italia at (212) 369-3290.
Held in connection with the visit off the Archbishop of Naples, Cardinal Crescenzo Sepe and with European Holocaust Remembrance Day.
La Scuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi invites students from New York public and private schools to take part in a dialogue on tolerance in the 21st Century featuring a reading of memories of the deportation of Italian Jews followed by a conversation with the Archbishop of Naples Crescenzio Sepe and Rabbi Arthur Schneier (Park East Synagogue).
Moderator: Maurizio Molinari (US correspondent, La Stampa)
The Reading: Muted Voices: Testimonies of the Italian Shoah
Students from La Scuola d'Italia will join actors Robert Zukerman and Antoinette La Vecchia in reading the selection of memories curated by Stella Levi (Centro Primo Levi) based on Il Libro della Shoah in Italia edited by Marcello Pezzetti (2009)
JAN 27 | Reading of the Names
Please join us and give five minutes of your time
Consulate General of Italy – Park Avenue at 68th Street
Outdoor | Reservations at memoria@primolevicenter.org
On January 27 between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm in front of the Consulate General of Italy at 688 Park Avenue (68th Street) we will read the names of the Jews deported from Italy and the former Italian territories. As Italian institutions, as people and governments, we will symbolically remember all the victims of the Holocaust and take stand together against prejudice, intolerance, and genocide. The Italian Cultural Institute, RAI Corporation, NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, The John Calandra Institute at CUNY, the Italian Academy at Columbia University, I-Italy.
OTHER PROGRAMS
January 27 | 6:00 pm
NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, 24 West 12th Street
Memory and/of Italian Colonialism: a panel discussion on the occasion of Zapruder's publication of Brava Gente
On the occasion of the International Day of Memory 2010 Casa Italiana has chosen to focus on the past most willingly forgotten by Italians: Italian colonialism.
Prof. Ruth Ben Ghiat will moderate a panel featuring Prof. Teresa Fiore and Claudio Fogu in conversation with Elena Petricola and Andrea Tappi, co-curators of Brava gente, a special 23rd number of the journal Zapruder.
The event will also serve as an opportunity to present Zapruder, an innovative and daring journal dedicated to the history of social movements, and to the association of young Italian scholars, Storie in movimento. On Friday, January 28, Casa Italiana will also host a meeting of scholars that will discuss and prepare the launching of a digital version of Zapruder in English, moderated by Stefano Angoletto and Eros Francescangeli.
January 30 | 1:00 pm
Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street
Anti-Fascism and Resistance Among Italian Jews
A panel of scholars, witnesses, and public intellectuals will discuss little-known aspects of civilian and armed resistance to the Fascist regime. Live connection from the studios of the Italian Broadcasting Company in Rome and Milan.
JAN 30 | Anti-Fascism and Resistance Among Italian Jews | 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Center for Jewish History – 15 West 16th Street, NYC
Admission is free.
Reservations at memoria@primolevicenter.org
An afternoon of film and interviews will reconstruct the participation of Italian Jews in anti-Fascist movements and the resistance. A panel of scholars and public intellectuals will shed light on the early opposition to Mussolini's Regime and the exodus to France of many political dissenters.
The discussion will also focus on the activity of Giustizia e Libertà, whose founders, the Rosselli brothers, were murdered in 1937. The hit was ordered by the Italian secret police and executed by the French Cagoule, an extremist right-wing underworld group. Finally, the panel will examine the role of various organizations, including Delasem, the Italian Jewish relief organization, the Committee of National Liberation of Nothern Italy, a partisan group that rose against the Germans and created the Republic of Ossola, the only independent front in Northern Italy before 1945, and the Jewish Brigade in Italy. Participants will be connected via videoconference from several Italian and Israeli cities. Guests include: Liliana Picciotto, Anna Bravo, Alberto Rosselli, Davide Rodogno, Paolo Bologna, Guri Schwarz, Gianfranco Moscati, Miriam Mafai, Michele Battini, Anna Foa and Emanuele Fiano. Film Screening, The Rosselli Case (Italian w/English subtitles), directed by Stella Savino, and produced by Rai and DocLab and Fox Channels Italy
February 1 | 5:30 pm
Italian Academy at Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Av.
Racially Inferior: Roma, Sinti and other Holocaust Victims
Along with the six million Jews who paid the highest price in the concentration camps, other minority groups were targeted by the racism and xenophobia of the Nazi and Fascist regimes. The Roma and Sinti (known as Gypsies), too, were judged to be “racially inferior,” and they suffered a fate not dissimilar to that of the Jews. This year, the Italian Academy’s Holocaust Remembrance event broadens the focus to look at the plight of this other “racially inferior” group in German-occupied Europe of the 1940s, and in present-day Europe.
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Sponsoring institutions
European Holocaust Remembrance Day is held in collaboration with the Consulate General of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute, and RAI Corporation. Programs are also held at NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò and the Italian Academy at Columbia University.
About Giorno della Memoria
Between 1938 and 1945 European Nazi and Fascist regimes, and the people who supported them, annihilated millions of Jews and thousands of homosexuals, handicapped, mentally ill, and gypsies they had labeled as “stranger,” “unwanted,” and “subhuman”. Prejudice and racial hatred put a halt to the lives of millions of individuals and devastated the societies in which this crime was perpetrated. On January 27, 1945 the Soviet Army entered and liberated the extermination camp of Auschwitz, starting the beginning of the liberation process. This date was chosen in the year 2000 to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and to promote the fight against racism. Following the efforts of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, Research and the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust, Italy, Germany, and France established it as a national observance and they were joined by all of the countries of the European Union and the United Nations.
The Resolution of the Italian Government
Legge 20 luglio 2000, n. 211. The Republic of Italy recognizes the day of January 27, anniversary of the demolition of the gates of Auschwitz, as “Day of Remembrance” aimed at remembering the Shoah (extermination of the Jewish people), the racial laws, the Italian persecution of the Jewish citizens, the Italians who suffered deportation, imprisonment, death, and those who opposed the final solution and at the risk of their lives helped save lives and protect those who were persecuted.
The Resolution of the United Nations
On Tuesday, November 1, 2005 the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution to designate January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In doing so, the assembly urged the nations of the world to observe the day so that future generations will be spared acts of genocide. Co-sponsored by 104 other states, the resolution rejects Holocaust denial and encourages countries to develop educational programs about the horrors of genocide. It also condemns religious intolerance, incitement, harassment, or violence based on ethnic origin or religious belief.
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Center for Contemporary Jewish Documentation in Milan:
THOUGHTS
«Se ciascuno di noi facesse davvero i conti con se stesso, a proposito del razzismo, questo confronto potrebbe rappresentare, se non il principio della fine, almeno la fine del principio. » Rosellina Balbi (1923-1991), writer, journalist and human rights activist.
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