Hundreds of students from across Italy responded to the call for applications by REMEMBR-HOUSE, a project promoted by the Fondazione 1563 per l\u2019Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San Paolo and the Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS) in Ferrara. The challenge was to reflect on the theme of home \u201cas an inalienable human right,\u201d drawing inspiration from documents in the EGELI Fund, which detail the confiscation of Jewish property in the Piedmont and Liguria regions following the enactment of racial laws in 1938.
\nAmong the many submissions, the jury selected five outstanding projects to be showcased in an exhibition running until October 6 at the National Museum of the Risorgimento in Turin.
\nDesigned by Giulia Gallerani and curated by Sharon Reichel, the exhibit is arranged like a house of four rooms \u2014three of which each display one project, while the fourth features two. The schools represented in the exhibition include \u201cG. Soleri \u2013 A. Bertoni\u201d high school in Saluzzo (Cuneo, Piedmont), \u201cA. Gallotta\u201d high school in Eboli (Salerno, Campania), \u201cP. Sraffa\u201d high school (Brescia, Lombardy), \u201cD. Modugno\u201d high school in Polignano a Mare (Bari, Apulia) and the professional institute \u201cD. Modugno\u201d in Conversano (Bari, Apulia).<\/p>\n
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\nThe winning project, created by the students of Saluzzo, is titled \u201cA European education\u201d and draws inspiration from the experiences of Benvenuto Lattes and Giulio Segre, one an adult, the other a child, both persecuted by Nazi fascism. The project aims to \u201craise awareness about past and present dynamics leading to rights violation and the subsequent search for a new refuge.\u201d Other selected projects explore similar themes, with works reflecting on the value of remembrance \u201cas unchanging emotion,\u201d the home as \u201cmemory of who we are,\u201d poetry as a medium for \u201cuncontainable emotions that define life,\u201d and videos documenting the \u201cdramatic escalation\u201d of crimes against individuals from 1938. Attending the inauguration with representatives of the other organizing institutions, Dario Disegni, former president of the MEIS, congratulated the students.<\/p>\n