“A wave of emotions swept over me when the Pope came toward me with open arms and embraced me. Two thousand years of history, pain, and suffering weighed upon my heart.” With these words, the then Chief Rabbi of Rome, …
The European Association for the Preservation and Promotion of Jewish Culture and Heritage (AEPJ) is celebrating its 20th anniversary. The AEPJ has been a key promoter of the European Day of Jewish Culture and numerous initiatives dedicated to highlighting over …
Mario Falco (1884–1943) was a professor of canon law; Carlo Foà (1880–1971) was a professor of human physiology; Giuliana Fiorentino Tedeschi (1914–2010) was an assistant in the history of the Italian language. They had vastly different lives and stories, connected …
“The most significant finding emerging from the survey Italians and Holocaust Remembrance Day: The evolution of perception from 2014 to 2025 appears to be related to declining attention. Paradoxically, at a time when attention to the Jewish world is at …
From the Italian sport fields glory to Auschwitz. This is the tragic journey of Arpad Weisz, one of the most successful football coaches in history, winner of three national titles Weisz, as victorious as few others in his field, was …
The condition of 13 extermination camps and their sub-camps between 1944 and 1945, starting with those lesser-known in the Baltic region, is the focus of the new exhibition inaugurated at the Shoah Museum Foundation in Rome. Curated by historian Marcello …
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, this was emphasized by President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Noemi Di Segni in a press conference in Rome. “Holocaust Remembrance Day is not an event for Jews alone but for all of Italy …
Sami Modiano, Piero Terracina, Elisa Springer. The testimony of extermination camp survivors, broadcast on screens, opened the solemn Memorial Day ceremony at the Quirinale on January 28. Present were the highest authorities of the Italian state and, most importantly, the …
Shortly after the announcement of the ceasefire in Gaza and the release of the first hostages held by Hamas, the President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI), Noemi Di Segni, appealed for at least one more “ceasefire”: that …
After World War II, Louis Goldman became an established photographer in the USA. During the war, he was a young Jewish man hounded by the nazi-fascists. Born in Germany to Polish parents, he fled to Paris and later hid in …