A calendar stuffed with appointments to commemorate the Holocaust, an appointment with Reminiscence, an encounter with Historical past, but additionally with Hope that the identical details will function a warning and can by no means be repeated once more, a calendar by which it’s everybody’s responsibility to recollect it. Reminiscence is the inspiration of human respect and civilization.
Many appointments for reminiscence
Promotion of books, movies, instructional workshops, conferences, conferences, demonstrations and guided excursions. There are over 70 appointments organized by the municipality for Memorial Day along with establishments and associations. Initiatives geared toward commemorating the victims of Nazi-fascist persecution and extermination, but additionally of an academic nature. The wealthy program was introduced by metropolis council president Ermelinda Damiano.
Free live performance at La Fenice theater
Town ceremony for the Holocaust Remembrance Day will happen on January 22 at 11:00 on the Teatro La Fenice with the participation of Mayor Luigi Brugnaro, the top of the Jewish Group of Venice Dario Calimani, and the director of the Fondazione Teatro La Fenice Fortunato. orthomb This might be adopted by Pina Napolitano’s “Reminiscence Live performance”. A Piano Concerto with music by Arnold Schoenberg.
over 70 occasions
Almost the entire greater than 70 organized occasions throughout the area till February 23 are free and free admission topic to availability. This yr, 24 extra limitations have been left in reminiscence of the residents of Venice deported to Nazi extermination camps; stones have been thrown in entrance of the final recognized dwelling. The ceremony was attended by German artist Gunter Demnig, who created the well-known Stolpersteine, who since 1992 has toured Europe to throw stones in reminiscence of all victims of Nazism, together with Roma and Sinti, gays and politicians, the bodily disabled. and psychological.
Marco Borghi and Reminiscence
“Ten years of stumbling in Venice. Murano is a metropolis with extra stones after Burano, Rome, and with Milan, changing Venice Mayor Marco Borghi”. 13 are devoted to males and 11 to ladies, amongst them the youngest Venetian sufferer of the 2-month-old Shoah, belonging to the Nacamulli household. The limitations laid in Venice this yr thus totaled 159. It’s a nice instructing instrument for faculties to have interaction younger folks.
This system for laying the C’inciampo stones occurred in two phases
The primary on the San Marco/Castello route the place the 9 Stones have been laid:
1 – Aldo Salom / San Marco 3877, Campiello del Teatro, in entrance of the Sant’Angelo pier
2 – Arrigo Bernau / San Marco 1979
3 – Eloisa Scandiani / San Marco 1801
4 – Riccardo Marsiglio / San Marco 4402
5 – Ettore Marella / San Marco 1063
6 – Emma Vitta, Marco Ettore Vitta, Carlo Vitta / San Marco 1033
7 – Polish Clementine / Castello 6005
Second: The Cannaregio route the place the Fifteen Stones have been laid:
1 – Marco Rietti / Cannaregio 5822, Corte Morosina, close to the Malibran Theater
2 – Emma Saravalle / Cannaregio 3605
3 – Queen Allegrina Navarro / Cannaregio 2198
4 – Bellina Melli / Cannaregio 2337
5 – Marco Jarach / Cannaregio 1950
6 – Vittorio Nacamulli, Costanza Misano, Gina Nacamulli, Umberto Nacamulli / Cannaregio 1215
7 – Samuele Leone Foà / Cannaregio 1180
8 – Clementina Fano, Eloisa Ravà / Cannaregio 1150
9 – Bruno Basso / Cannaregio 1135
10 – Lidia Lopes Pegna, Luciano Mariani / Cannaregio
Due to the associations of the mayor of town council, Ermelinda Damiano
President Ermelinda Damiano stated: “It’s a nice honor for me to as soon as once more coordinate and take part in Remembrance Day, a broadly attended and crossover memorial day that has taken on richer and extra distinctive kinds through the years.” It constitutes an essential alternative for historic, cultural and ethical reflection in protection of freedom towards all types of violence and oppression, to ship an important message of brotherhood from Venice. But additionally respect and sharing. I’m grateful to the associations and organizations whose dedication makes this appointment attainable every year: There are greater than 80 matters that renew their cultural choices every year and attraction to an more and more youthful technology. Venice affirms its vocation as a metropolis of reminiscence as a virtuous instance of what has been completed lately to maintain the reminiscence of the Shoah alive. I might additionally wish to thank the municipalities that participated within the group.
Intervention of the chief rabbi of Venice, Alberto Sermoneta
The chief rabbi of Venice, Alberto Sermoneta, testified: “Thanks for every part you’ve completed for the memorial day, which is so essential to trendy civilization. It isn’t a one-day occasion, it’s not simply sooner or later, it’s what the Shoah left behind, beginning on January 28 and ending on January 26 of the next yr. it represents a journey we take into consideration. Reminiscence is crucial: it means placing your self in the identical state of affairs as those that have gone by these barbarisms to make sure that it would not occur once more. Conscious that what occurred in Europe additionally began right here in Italy with the race legal guidelines set by Mussolini, and have been applied with the indifference of those that accepted it. facet.
Reminiscence isn’t just Nazism
Once we speak in regards to the Shoah, we’re speaking about Nazi-fascism, not simply Nazism: It is one thing that pursuits us within the first place. The overwhelming majority of Italians acted as if nothing had occurred, closing their eyes and ears in order to not know. The camps the place Jews have been slaughtered and murdered have been extermination camps, not focus camps, this must be clarified.
Evaluating Auschwitz to refugee camps, as some do, is against the law
A demise camp was the right killing machine. Shoah was absolutely the negation of man. We’ve a double responsibility: to grasp the veterans’ message and go it on to the youthful generations, from father to son. Daily we prepare our reminiscence, even for the issues we do not like to speak about: that is the message of Memorial Day. We actually hope we get previous the hindrances and take into consideration what is going on on.”
Presence of the Council of Europe with Luisella Pavan Wolfe
Luisella Pavan Woolfe, director of the Venice workplace of the Council of Europe, additionally contributed: “Remembrance Day is proof that Europe exists. Earlier than it grew to become a global day to have fun the reminiscence of the Holocaust, it was an initiative of the training ministers of the Council of Europe. For seventy years, we’ve got come collectively each day to defend human rights and to combat towards all types of discrimination and anti-Semitism on the previous continent. For Venice Memorial Day this yr, we selected the theme Righteous Among the many Nations, which might be destroyed by an exhibition, movie and books. He lives to save lots of the Jews through the years of Nazi-fascist persecution.
Even a film to maintain the reminiscence alive
Wednesday, January 25, 17.00, Cinema Dante, By way of Sernaglia 10 – Mestre (VE)
Projection The film “The Girl from the Warsaw Zoo”, directed by Niki Caro
Antonina and her husband, the keeper of town zoo, Dr. After the destruction of the zoo, Jan Zabinski finds themselves alone to save lots of a couple of surviving animals. With the persecution of the Jews, the 2 spouses start secretly collaborating with the Resistance, realizing that the zoo’s cages and underground tunnels can secretly serve to guard human life.
Exhibition
From Thursday, February 26 to Sunday, February 5, time Sala S. Leonardo, Cannaregio 1584 – Venice to start “The Righteous Among the many Nations” exhibition from 10:30. Curated by the youngsters of the Venetian Holocaust affiliation.
Consisting of 24 canvases due to paperwork from the archives of the Yad Vashem Institute, this exhibition needs to commemorate those that did their greatest to actively assist the Jewish inhabitants persecuted through the Nazi fascism at the price of their lives. Two movies devoted to the youngest in fixed imaginative and prescient. Guided excursions for college students and teams by reservation. Reserving from the hyperlink: https://forms.gle/kDcoKgQ2qFhuTws18 and opening hours: Free guided excursions on request by writing to: luca.volpato@coe.int
The Reminiscence Corradini Remembers
Sunday, February 5, 15.00, Sala S. Leonardo, Cannaregio 1584 – Venice
Dialogue with creator and Hebrew professional Matteo Corradini “Auschwitz is for everybody”
Matteo Corradini takes us to the story of Marta Ascoli, who was arrested as a “crossbreed” by the Nazi-fascists and deported along with her father to Auschwitz. He survived, he won’t ever cease telling. On the finish of the “Righteous Among the many Nations” exhibition, Corradini will observe a path that connects victims with those that attempt to assist, reflecting the need to outlive making an attempt to beat evil.
Vice President of the Jewish Group of Venice
Paolo Navarro Dina, vice-president of the Jewish Group of Venice, stated: “The municipality’s 70 conferences with associations are the most effective response to discrimination and anti-Semitism. A way of generosity that unites us, reinforces us, and provides us the chance to mirror on what has occurred up to now. A collective work that we’re pleased with because the Jewish Group was carried out, we thank our Municipality. All this creates a virtuous circle of friendship, cooperation and generosity that’s essential to town.”
For info on the various initiatives, please go to the web site of the Municipality of Venice on the related web site or write to: giornodellamemoria@comune.venezia.it
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