79 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Italy remembers the horrors of the Holocaust.
Italy will mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday, with a series of commemorative events marking the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella commemorated Giorno della Memoria on Friday by speaking with Holocaust survivors at Rome’s Quirinale Palace. Sami Modiano Guest of honor.
“We know that our country, Italy, during the period of fascism, in a general atmosphere of indifference, adopted despicable racist laws as the first chapter in a terrible book of extermination, and that members of the Republic of Salo actively cooperated in the capture. “We must never forget what happened, the deportations, and even the genocide of the Jews,” Mattarella said.
controversy
This year’s Giorno della Memoria will be held against the backdrop of controversy surrounding pro-Palestinian rallies planned for Saturday in Rome, Milan and other cities.
Following protests from Italy’s Jewish community and intervention from the Interior Ministry, the local police chief banned any gatherings that day.
But news agency ANSA reported that organizers of the pro-Palestinian rally vowed to press ahead with Saturday’s demonstration regardless of the ban.
milan
In Milan on Thursday night, a mural depicting the cartoon character “The Simpsons” as an exiled Jew was defaced with the words “Heil Hitler” and “Fuck Israel.”
This platform was where many of Italy’s Jews, including Holocaust survivors, were sent to Nazi concentration camps. Liliana SegreThe 93-year-old was deported to Auschwitz with her father when she was 13 years old.
Upon arriving at the concentration camp, Segre was separated from his beloved father, never to see him again.
Segre, one of the few Italian Jewish children who survived Nazi concentration camps, was appointed to the Senate for life in 2018 for his years of speaking about the horrors of the Holocaust.
Rome
Rome is holding 60 commemorative events, including the shocking exhibition “Words of Hate: Rome’s Jews Sold to the Nazis” in the Jewish ghetto district, Casina dei Valati.
The free exhibition, which runs until February 15, documents the shameful role of informers who denounced their fellow Nazis as Jews during World War II.
The curators of the exhibition highlight the amount of money the Nazis paid for each tip that led to the capture of a Roman Jew, including 5,000 liras for each man, 3,000 liras for each woman, and 1,000 liras for each child. Ta.
Stolperstein monument
Rome recently installed 21 new Holocaust memorial cobblestones, adding to the hundreds of Holocaust memorial cobblestones. Stolperstein It is already present on the streets around the capital.
This monument, designed by Berlin artist Günter Demnig, is known as. Stolperstein It literally translates to “stumbling block” in German and is placed outside the final chosen homes of Holocaust victims.
The brass-capped blocks are dedicated to Jews and partisans, mainly women and children who were deported to Auschwitz or massacred at the Fosse Ardeatine in Rome.
[1945年にアウシュヴィッツの生存者が解放された日を記念して国連によって制定された国際ホロコースト記念日は、迫害、国外追放、投獄、虐殺に苦しんだ何百万ものユダヤ人だけでなく、同性愛者、ロマ人などの人々の記憶をたたえる日です。。
カバー画像: Via della Madonna dei Monti の Stolpersteine。 写真提供: Fabrizio / Shutterstock.com のみ。