January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, is the international day of commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
On the occasion of the commemorations of Memorial Day,
Europe Direct Venezia Veneto collaborates with the activities proposed by the City of Venice and many local organizations: book presentations, film screenings, concerts, photo exhibitions.
The calendar of meetings, exhibitions, book presentations and concerts organized to keep alive the memory of what happened is very busy between January and February 2021:
Here are the initiatives organized in collaboration with Europe Direct of the City of Venice:
=> City ceremony for Memorial Day 2021 from the Teatro La Fenice in Venice
Sunday, January 24, 2021 at 11:00 live streaming from the Teatro La Fenice
Program:
Nabucco: The festive furnishings fall down shattered - Giuseppe Verdi
Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt - Ilse Werbe
Nabucco: Let’s think about the golden wings - Giuseppe Verdi
Wiegala - Ilse Webe
Choir of the Teatro La Fenice directed by Claudio Marino Moretti
Contralto Valeria Girardello
Piano and accordion Ulisse Trabacchin
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=> Tuesday and Thursday of memory on air: appointments on Radio Ca’ Foscari at 17.30
With readings by students from the University and the Military Naval School Francesco Morosini, Fucina Arti Performative Ca' Foscari, Elizabeth Bellak and Alexandra Bellak, actress Ottavia Piccolo and writer Tiziano Scarpa
Music by Michele Gazich
- 12 January 2021
Renia Spiegel’s 1939-1942 diary
Introduced by Bruna Bianchi (Ca' Foscari University Venice)
- 14 January 2021
I have to tell. Diary 1941-1945 by Masha Rolnikaite
Introduced by Francesca Pangallo (Ca' Foscari University Venice)
- 19 January 2021
I want to live. The diary of Éva Heyman
Introduced by Ricciarda Ricorda (Ca' Foscari University Venice)
- 21 January 2021
The stolen years. The memories of Settimia Spizzichino from the Lager of Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen
Introduced by Maria Teresa Sega (Iveser)
- 26 January 2021
Counts and tells. Memoirs of a left-wing Jew by Amos Luzzatto
Interview with Gadi Luzzatto Voghera (Centro Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea Milano)
- 28 January 2021
Mother Teresa’s diary: A journey in search of her son, who died in a Nazi concentration camp
The following spoke: Silvia Pascale (author) and Orlando Materassi (President ANEI)
- 2 February 2021
Genocide of State and Italian responsibilities in 1943-45. On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the entry into force of the UN Convention against Genocide
Speakers: Sara De Vido and Simon Levis Sullam (Ca' Foscari University Venice)
- 4 February 2021
Romance and Shoah
Alessandro Cinquegrani and Federico Rigamonti (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) in dialogue with Michele Gazich (singer-songwriter)
- 9 February 2021
Italy and racial laws
The following spoke: Leonardo Campus (Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities)
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=> Webinar:
- 12 January 2021, 18.00
The accounts with history. The racial laws between television and historiography of Leonardo Campus
The author converses with Simon Levis Sullam (Ca' Foscari University Venice) and Gadi Luzzatto Voghera (Centro Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea Milano)
The appointment takes place on Zoom with mandatory registration
- 19 January 2021, 15.30
Dialogue and reflections on "The Place of the Jews" by Amos Luzzatto
Institutional greetings: Ca' Foscari University Venice, Jewish Community of Venice and Council of Europe Office of Venice
Speakers: Gadi Luzzato Voghera (Director of Centro Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea Milano) and Milena Santerini (National Coordinator for the fight against anti-Semitism)
With readings by the writer Tiziano Scarpa and students of Ca' Foscari
The appointment takes place on Zoom with mandatory registration
- 26 January 2021, 16.00
Olga Blumenthal. Story of a Life
Institutional greetings: Ca' Foscari University Venice, Council of Europe Office of Venice, resistances, Iveser, Beit Venice
Presentation Beit Venice and Project "Stones of stumbling, places of memory and augmented reality"
Speakers: Simon Levis Sullam (Ca' Foscari University Venice), Luisa Bellina (resistances and Iveser), Emilia Peatini (author), Giulia Simone (University of Padua)
The appointment takes place on Zoom with mandatory registration
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=> International conference:
3 February, at 16.30
Memory, law and rights/ Memory, law and rights
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention against Genocide
Institutional greetings: Ca' Foscari University Venice, Cestudir, Council of Europe Office of Venice
Speakers: Paola Gaeta (Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies), Sara De Vido (Delegate for the Day of Remembrance and Remembrance Ca' Foscari University Venice; Associate Professor of International Law), William Schabas (Professor Middlesex University London), Leyla Ferman (Chair of Women for Justice), Matteo Rosati (Unesco).
The conference is held in English.
The appointment takes place on Zoom with mandatory registration
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In the framework of the Venice City Council’s Programme for Memorial Day 2021, the Council of Europe will, together with the Sons of the Shoah Association, the Jewish Museum of Venice, Coopculture and the Cinema Circuit of the City of Venice, in collaboration with Ca' Foscari University and Europe Direct Venice, four moments to remember:
- On Saturday 30 January at 17:00 the conference "Porrajmos, the genocide of the Roma and Sinti", with a virtual visit to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, in which Dijana Pavlovic, human rights activist
- Thursday, 4 February at 17:30 online opening of the exhibition "The drawings of the children of Terezin", a presentation of the most significant drawings and poems of the children of the ghetto of Terezin
- Monday 8 February at 18:00 Matteo Corradini tells Terenzin to young people: "The Dragon of Doris - Stories of art in the ghetto, between stolen pastels and spaceships". The writer and Jew will tell the life that children led in the field that the Nazi propaganda presented as "model ghetto"
- On Thursday 11 February, in association with the Circuito Cinema del Comune di Venezia, will be presented the documentary by Michele Bongiorno, directed by Jan Ronca, "The City that Hitler gave to the Jews".
To be able to attend it will be sufficient to send an e-mail to caterina.cognini@coe.int with the subject: request documentary vision "The City that Hitler gave to the Jews", indicating in the text the name and surname of the applicant.