Regione Veneto
Commemoration of Remembrance Day 2025
27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, is the international day of commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
Between January and February 2025, the City of Venice promotes and coordinates a rich calendar of initiatives proposed by many local organisations: book presentations, film screenings, concerts, conferences and photographic exhibitions.
Official programme of the Day of Remembrance of the City of Venice 2025 DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE PROGRAMME or go to the dedicated section of the City of Venice website.
Below are the initiatives organised in collaboration between Europe Direct of the City of Venice, the Council of Europe and Ca' Foscari University of Venice:
-Wednesday 22 January, 5:30 p.m. screening of the film ‘Woman in Gold’, Casa del Cinema, Venice
-Tuesday 23 January, 5:00 pm presentation of the book ‘La spada non ha salvata mi’, Scoletta dei Calegheri, Venice
-Tuesday 28 January, 17:30 film screening ‘Resistance’, Cinema Rossini, Venice
-Saturday 1 February, 7:30 pm theatre recital ‘Painting is my cure’, Aula magna Ateneo Veneto, Venice
-Monday 3 February, 10:30 a.m. international conference ‘Memory, Law and Rights’, Aula Baratto Ca' Foscari, Venice
-Wednesday 5 February, 10:30 a.m. presentation ‘Bergen Belsen:...a black abyss into which humanity sinks’, Aula Baratto Ca' Foscari, Venice
IN DETAIL
Free screening organised by the Council of Europe Italian Branch and the Sons of the Shoah Association. The 2015 film, directed by Simon Curtis, tells the story of Maria Altmann, an Austrian Jewish businesswoman and her legal battle to obtain the return of paintings stolen by the Nazis.
At Casa del Cinema (Salizada San Stae, Santa Croce 1990, Venice)
Participants: Council of Europe Italian Headquarters, Associazione Figli della Shoah
Greetings by: Mario Schwetz, Italian Headquarters of the Council of Europe, and Marina Scarpa Campos, Vice-President Associazione Figli della Shoah
Edited by: Council of Europe Italian Headquarters, Sons of the Shoah Association
Info: 0415711099
Admission is free while places last, registration procedures are being defined.
The story of Helene Mayer. Jewish. German. Champion. This book, written by Matteo Corradini, is about the athlete Helene Mayer, born in Offenbach in 1910. The daughter of a Jew, she became champion of Germany, a gold medalist in Amsterdam 1928, moved to the United States and was recalled by the Nazi Reich for Berlin 1936. 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.
At Scoletta dei Calegheri (Campo San Tomà, San Polo 2857, Venice)
Introduction by: 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.
Edited by: Council of Europe Italian Headquarters, Associazione Figli della Shoah and Municipality of Venice.
Info: 0415711099
Admission is free while places last, registration procedures are being defined.
The Voice of Silence. A 2020 film directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz, it tells the story of Marcel Marceau, a famous mime, who together with his brother and a group of other young people join the French resistance to fight the German invasion of France. Through this film, the Italian Office of the Council of Europe and the Associazione Figli della Shoah will attempt to explore the relationship between childhood and the Shoah.
Participants: the Council of Europe Italian Headquarters, Associazione Figli della Shoah
Greetings by: Mario Schwetz, Italian Headquarters of the Council of Europe, and Marina Scarpa Campos, Vice-President Associazione Figli della Shoah and a representative of the Municipality of Venice.
Theatrical and musical recital produced by Arte-Mide Teatro in collaboration with the City of Venice and the Vittorio Cini Archive Foundation. Mise-en-espace centred on the extraordinary and unique story of the painter Charlotte Salomon. After careful and punctual research, a dramaturgical script will be written and an engaging recital will be created to restore the autobiographical work of the painter, who died pregnant in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Introduction to the project: Jean Blanchaert
Actress, dramaturgy, texts: Chiarastella Seravalle
Live double bass music: Danilo Gallo
Historical and iconographic research Recital: Franca Caltarossa
Admission free while places last, reservation required at info@ateneoveneto.org
Restitution of Nazi confiscated art/Restituzione dell'arte confiscata dai Nazisti. The conference will focus on the topic of the restitution of cultural property confiscated from the Nazi regime at the end of the Second World War.
Welcoming remarks by: Sara de Vido, Delegate for the Days of Memory, Remembrance and Gender Equality of Ca' Foscari University Venice.
Speakers: Francesca Ragno, Professor of International Law University of Bologna, and Katharina Hüls-Valenti, Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Musikwissenschaften, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität.
Moderator: Simon Levis Sullam, Professor of Contemporary History Ca' Foscari University Venice.
Edited by: Ca' Foscari University of Venice and the rEsistenze Association.
The conference will be held in English.
...a black abyss into which humanity sinks. Meeting on the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, with special focus on the Venetian citizens who were interned there.
Followed by readings of testimonies.
Greetings by: Sara de Vido, Delegate for the Days of Memory, Remembrance and Gender Equality of Ca' Foscari University Venice.
Introduction: Maria Teresa Sega, rEsistenze Association.
Speakers: ‘Il filo di Arianna: alla ricerca di Luisa Levi’, Maria Bacchi, historian of wartime childhood; ‘Niente fiori per gli ebrei. Venetians at Bergen-Belsen’, Maria Teresa Sega, Associazione rEsistenze.
Edited by: Ca' Foscari University of Venice and the rEsistenze Association.
For further information:
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