Book presentation "La spada non mi ha salvata" - Commemoration for Memorial Day 2025

On Thursday 23 January at 5.30 p.m., on the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025, there will be a presentation of the book ‘La spada non mi ha salvata’ by Matteo Corradini at the Scoletta dei Calegheri.
The event is organised in collaboration with Matteo Corradini, the Municipality of Venice, the Italian Office of the Council of Europe, the Associazione Figli della Shoah and Europe Direct.
Through this film, the Italian Office of the Council of Europe and the Associazione Figli della Shoah will attempt to explore the relationship between art and the Shoah.

 

Introduction: Marina Scarpa Campos, Vice-President Associazione Figli della Shoah.
Interventions by: Andrea Tomaello, Deputy Mayor of Venice, and Mario Schwetz, Italian Headquarters of the Council of Europe.
Speaker: Matteo Corradini, Hebraist and writer.
Organised by: Council of Europe, Associazione Figli della Shoah and Municipality of Venice.

 

SYNOPSIS
Helene Mayer was born in 1910 in Offenbach, just outside Frankfurt, and from an early age revealed a natural aptitude for fencing. The daughter of a Jew, she became a German champion, a gold medallist in Amsterdam 1928, moved to the United States and was called up by the Nazi Reich for Berlin 1936. A Jewess at Hitler's Olympics, an athlete who has made her way at home and in the USA, only to return to win medals. And she does. A story where the line between good and evil blurs into the mists of history. The imagery of fencing, the imagery of the Nazi Reich, propaganda, the meaning of training... these are issues that all converge in Helene's wounded heart, wounded by history and her identity. But redeemed with a sword.

 

Scholetta dei Calegheri
Address: Calle del Traghetto O Ca' Garzon, 2857, 30125 Venezia VE