The start of the Tour de France, the annual multiple-stage bicycle race which this year originated in Florence, was dedicated to Gino Bartali. To honor the Tuscan champion recognized in 2013 as a “Righteous Among the Nations” (the honor given to non-Jews who took great risks to save Jews during the Holocaust) a race was …
Under the sky of Turin, the Mole Antonelliana has once again turned blue. “1848: Jews and Waldensians, citizens like others”, states the white bold lettering appearing on the city’s symbol from this week. Conceived as a grand new temple for the than newly emancipated Jewish community of Turin 1848, the Mole never became a synagogue. …
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Catania Section of the Jewish Community of Naples held an event to raise awareness about the Sicilian Jewish heritage. The initiative included a visit to the impressive Jewish catacombs located in the ancient heart of Noto.
Four hundred Roman students in the hall and 500,000 connected remotely from all over Italy listened to the testimony of Sami Modiano, 93 years old, one of the last living survivors of the Shoah. “You must know. When I am gone, there will be more of you, and you will make sure that this never …
Giacomo Anticoli was born into an old and large Jewish family in Rome. In 1928 he was hired as a driver and head usher at the Italian Ministry of National Education, and then was relocated to the Italian National Research Council (CNR). From 1937 he resided inside the building with his loved ones, in the …
An artistic installation was set in Rome to remember the hundred days of hell for the Israeli hostages, who from October 7, have been held in Gaza since the terrorist action of Hamas on the soil of the Jewish state. The initiative, organized at the Circus Maximus in Rome by Bring Them Home Italia, involved …
On January 4, 1944, around 300 people were deported from Regina Coeli, the prison in Rome where they had been incarcerated during World War II. “They were political prisoners and therefore considered ‘undesirable elements.’ Twelve of these individuals were Jewish,” Andrea Di Veroli, the president of the National Partisans Association – ANED, recounted in an …
For the 36th consecutive year, the Chabad movement has brought the tradition of Hanukkah to the heart of Rome, lighting the menorah in the historical Piazza Barberini. This year, the ceremony held particular significance considering the ongoing situation in the Middle East. The UCEI Presidente Noemi Di Segni participated in the ceremony with the President …
Thousands of people gathered on Tuesday in Piazza del Popolo in Rome to attend a rally against antisemitism and terrorism organized by the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities and the Jewish Community of Rome. Some of the highest-ranking representatives from the political, religious, and civil spheres were present in the square. Senator for Life …
The exhibition “Houses of life – Synagogues and cemeteries in Italy”, recently inaugurated at the MEIS – National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah in Ferrara devotes a significant attention to events and testimonies of Jewish Rome. From the synagogue found in the archaeological area of Ostia up to the present time, it is …
The Italian Synagogue, built in 1575, is one of the five synagogues in the ancient Venice Ghetto. It is a symbol of the Jewish-Venetian identity, recognisable also by the five windows that recall the Great German Synagogue and by the small Baroque dome above the apse. Not only is it a symbol, but it is …
Born in 2014, the Viktor Ullmann Festival aims at bringing back to life works by Jews and non-Jew composers persecuted by Nazi fascism for their cultural commitment, their artistic activity, and their identity. The music festival, set in Trieste, opened a few days ago with a concert in the synagogue which had as protagonists the …
“The commitment of this award is more necessary than ever in order to make people aware of our world, without those filters and distortions that are difficult to extirpate even in unsuspecting people. But also by reading what the students in the children’s session wrote to us, I would say that we do are taking …
Las líneas directrices para contrarrestar el antisemitismo son un presidio de importancia fundamental en los distintos ámbitos en los que estas se reflejan. Entre estos ámbitos, cabe destacar el de la educación que, a partir del otoño pasado, es objeto de una campaña de promoción de sus principios en toda Italia. En la Feria del …
La Constitution italienne, rédigée à la suite de la dictature fasciste et de la persécution antijuive, est le fondement de la démocratie italienne. L’article 3 est sa pierre angulaire en stipulant l’égalité et le respect de la dignité de tous les citoyens. Mais soixante-cinq ans après l’entrée en vigueur de la Charte, il faut se …
Historienne de la Shoah de renommée internationale, organisatrice du projet de reconstruction des noms des juifs arrêtés en Italie par les nazi-fascistes, l’historienne Liliana Picciotto a associé son nom à celui de la Fondation CDEC de Milan pour le compte de laquelle elle a été à l’origine de différentes initiatives et études qui représentent un …
Die internationale Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst “Arte in Memoria” (Kunst im Gedenken) ist wieder da. Die von Adachiara Zevi konzipierte und kuratierte Ausstellung befindet sich auf dem Gelände der Synagoge der antiken Stadt Ostia, nämlich der ältesten Synagoge des Westens aus dem 1. Jahrhundert, in der Nähe von Rom. Die Kunstmesse, die bereits zum elften …
Aktion Reinhardt, the Nazi plan that murdered about 1.7 million Jews and an unknown number of Poles, Roma, and Soviet prisoners of war in German-occupied Poland, is the focus of a new exhibition by the Museum of the Shoah Foundation recently inaugurated in Rome. Titled “The Nazi hell. The death camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and …
Every year rabbis from all over the world travel to the southern region of Calabria to get a special type of etrog (citron) for Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles commemorating the Jews wandering in the desert after flying Egypt. A symbol of excellence of the Calabrian territory, the diamante citron used as Etrog, is now …
Rome Opera House was packed with young people last week for the national preview of the documentary “Il respiro di Shlomo” (Shlomo’s Breath) on the life of Holocaust survivor Shlomo Venezia, among the very few Sonderkommandos and the only Italian one to escape death. The first of five events for Holocaust Remembrance Day under the …