A symbol of innocence
By Anna Foa*
There is a video, circulating on social media, that shows a man in Ukraine who tries to stop with his bare hands a Russian tank and then kneels to do it. A very explicit symbol of …
Senza categoria
It can happen
By David Bidussa*
On November 4, 1956, the Red Army troops enter Budapest. They arrest all the members of the reformist government and order to surrender their arms. The philosopher György Lukács, Minister of Culture, lays on the table …
A Debt to history: Libyan Jews and Italy’s colonial legacy
By Jeremy Silverstein*
In 2012, the Jewish-Italian Holocaust survivor Messauda Fadlun received a startling demand from the Italian government. For several years, she had been the recipient of a state pension extended as restitution to those who had suffered …
Directives Cachées
Par Anna Segre
Les “directives administratives pour combattre l’antisémitisme dans les écoles” ont été envoyées à tous les professeurs par mail. Transférées par la Proviseure sans aucun commentaire, elles se perdent parmi les communications de tous les jours: des élèves …
A devastating question
By Anna Foa*
A few days ago, in an intervention from remote in a school in Lazio, I was talking about October 16, 1943 [the day the Raid of the Ghetto of Rome took place]. Senior high school students, …
Remembrance and Judaism
By Angelica Edna Calò Livne
In January and during the Pesach, on the day chosen by Israel to commemorate the Holocaust and Heroism, we think about the horrors of the Shoah more than ever. The pictures, the memories, the stories …
Antisemitism is always bad
By Gadi Polacco
“Right on Holocaust Remembrance Day’s week”, has been frequently remarked when commenting on the details of the physical and verbal aggression recently inflicted on a 12 years old Jewish boy in the province of Livorno by two …
Stamira Square
By Alberto Cavaglion*
Of all the port cities of Italy, where lively communities flourished, Ancona is the least studied, although just like Trieste, Livorno, Venezia, it is filled with Jewish memories. Who knows if in the synagogue of Ancona …
Wannsee’s 90 minutes
By David Bidussa*
When someone argues that democracy is a slow regime that does not decide, this still image comes to my mind. Wannsee, 20 January 1942 (80 years ago next Thursday): in 90 minutes – the duration of …
Liliana and the prisoners
By Anna Foa*
A short passage on the prison of S. Vittore in Milan taken from the dialogue between Marta Cartabia and Liliana Segre after their visit to the Shoah Memorial. An extraordinary text that should be read in …