Representatives of Holocaust museums and memorials in Italy actively participated to the international convention in Rome called \u201cI luoghi della memoria dialogano. Musei e memoriali per insegnare la Shoah\u201d (The places of remembrance converse. Museums and memorials to teach the Shoah). It is an initiative aimed at \u201cthe inter-institutional promotion of prevention and effective countering of distortions, reductionism and denialism,\u201d shared by the promoters of the newly-founded Italian network of places of remembrance: the Civic Museum of the \u201cRisiera di San Sabba\u201d in Trieste, the \u201cMemoriale della Shoah\u201d in Milan, the Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS) in Ferrara, the Fossoli Foundation in Carpi, the Shoah Museum Foundation of Rome and the \u201cMuseo Internazionale della Memoria Ferramonti di Tarsia\u201d in the Calabria region.
\nThe initiative, aimed especially at teachers, focuses on the presentation of these six museums and memorials and the education they provide, with also an international look at the activities of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and of the new Warsaw Ghetto Museum. \u201cThis is the first time we are all meeting together. There is a pressing need for discussion, particularly in light of what is currently happening,\u201d started off Amedeo Spagnoletto, director of the MEIS.
\nRemembrance \u201cis based on conceptual content, but it is also about physicality,\u201d stressed UCEI president Noemi Di Segni, emphasizing the value of the network. Hence \u201cthe need to see with one’s own eyes what happened: a Remembrance of the places.\u201d According to Di Segni, in the near future \u201cit will not be possible to talk about Remembrance without thinking about what happened on October 7, about this new massacre.\u201d In agreement is Mario Venezia, the president of the Shoah Museum Foundation of Rome, who also stated some key principles for the proper transmission of Remembrance: \u201cRigorous scientific study, faithful reconstruction of the facts, projection into the present and the future.\u201d It is a relevant topic for the Italian Ministry of Education as well, assured political advisor Vincenzo Mannino bringing greetings from minister Giuseppe Valditara.
\nNetworking \u201cis the way of the future,\u201d said Simonetta Della Seta, president of the IHRA Memorials and Museums Working Group. \u201cJoint action is urgently needed. The network is being launched at the right time.\u201d Teachers are being called \u201cto be accurate,\u201d but also to \u201cbroaden the context, therefore trying to understand and make people understand who Jews are and that there is a Jewish life before, during and after the Shoah.\u201d<\/p>\n