GIORNO DELLA MEMORIA

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Anche a New York si commemora il Giorno della Memoria.
January 27: Giorno della Memoria 2009

NOTE TO THE PUBLIC
The film screening on January 27 at 6 pm is free. We ask you to make a reservation. Please allow 20/30 minutes to pick up your ticket. We will hold your reservation until 6:10. Thank you
Centro Primo Levi, Consulate General of Italy, The Italian Cultural Institute, New York University Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, The Italian Academy at Columbia University, and The John Calandra Institute at CUNY.

About Giorno della Memoria
Between 1938 and 1945 European Nazi and Fascist regimes, and the people who supported them, annihilated millions of Jews and thousands of homosexuals, handicapped, mentally ill, and gypsies they had labeled as “stranger,” “unwanted,” and “subhuman”. Prejudice and racial hatred put a halt to the lives of millions of individuals and devastated the societies in which this crime was perpetrated. On January 27, 1945 the Soviet Army entered and liberated the extermination camp of Auschwitz, starting the beginning of the liberation process. This date was chosen in the year 2000 to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and to promote the fight against racism. Following the efforts of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, Research and the Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust, Italy, Germany, and France established it as a national observance and they were joined by all of the countries of the European Union and the United Nations.

THOUGHTS
«Se ciascuno di noi facesse davvero i conti con se stesso, a proposito del razzismo, questo confronto potrebbe rappresentare, se non il principio della fine, almeno la fine del principio. » Rosellina Balbi (1923-1991), writer, journalist and human rights activist.

Ed ecco i nostri pensieri:
In our opinion this day is to remember the horrors happened in the past in order to avoid that all this could happen again! Francesca, Martino, Elena P. e Federico

This Day was important because the observations were very deep and touching. All the classes have done a good job and through their performances they have left a mark into all our hearts. Erica, Davide, Andrea e Matteo

To remember who had lost everything, even his own dignity, and who had been taken away from his family. Shoah. In order not to forget. Alessia, Greta, Sofia, Marco

On Tuesday morning all the classes of the third year were together to show what they have done to commemorate those sad and horrible days of our near past. Beatrice, Elena C., Lisa, Margherita

The representation was a commemoration. We were into the roles of those who had lived this terrible experience, hoping that some fragments of what had been showed is still in our hearts. Enrico B, Enrico D. Vera e Alessia

http://www.i-italy.org/6349/taking-history-street