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January 30, 2017 - Shevat 2, 5777

NEWS

President of Italy Mattarella Honors
Holocaust Remembrance Day

By Adam Smulevich

The world needs to keep Remembrance alive and aware. It is useful to understand the past in all its complexity and difficulties.
This is the message that was voiced at the Quirinale, the official residence of the President of the Italian Republic during the traditional ceremony for International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was attended by the highest representatives of the country and a great many students.
The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, the Minister of Education Valeria Fedeli and the President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities Noemi Di Segni stressed the need of more intense work in the world of education and schools to really understand the lessons of the Shoah.

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A Rally for Remembrance in Milan

By Daniel Reichel

Thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday in Milan in a march leading to the Holocaust Memorial of the city. The rally started in via Plinio 20, where ten days before vandals had defaced a “stumbling stone” Holocaust memorial, covering it with black paint.
The stone commemorated Dante Coen who was deported to Auschwitz and killed at Buchenwald on April 4, 1945.

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Italy Marks Holocaust Remembrance Day

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Thousands of initiatives all over the country commemorated Holocaust Remembrance Day in Italy. Lectures, ceremonies, concerts and debates took place in virtually every major city, and in many smaller towns and villages.

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La deuxième génération

A l'occasion de la Journée Internationale dédiée à la mémoire des victimes de l’Holocauste le Musée juif de Bologne propose une exposition de plaques extraites du roman graphique La deuxième génération de Michel Kichka, deux ans après la publication du livre en langue italienne pour les types de Rizzoli Lizard. Le dessins de Kichka sont exposés simultanément en Italie et en Allemagne au Musée d’Art de Gelsenkirchen et à Paris au Mémorial de la Shoah, mais l'auteur le 26 janvier était à Bologne, pour participer à la séance solennelle du conseil de la ville avec l'écrivain et historien du judaïsme Riccardo Calimani e avec le maire, Virginio Merola. Voici le texte de son discours.

Par Michel Kichka

En réalisant La Seconda Generazione, je voulais juste ouvrir une blessure familiale qui faisait mal depuis très longtemps, la soigner puis la refermer d'une jolie cicatrice en forme de bande dessinée. Je voulais en finir avec cette douleur et la mettre derrière moi. Je voulais le faire parce que j'en vais besoin, besoin de mettre des mots et des images sur une vie qui était le mienne mais aussi celle de toute une génération d'enfants de survivants.

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Just Jewish

By Pierpaolo Punturello*

With a journalist friend, we found ourselves talking about Judaism and compromise, before a mutual friend and Teacher.
Over the course of our speeches, we found ourselves stating that after years of youthful definitions when we would highlight how we were, respectively a “secular Jew” and a “religious Jew”, now that we are almost 40, we just feel like "Jews”.
Maybe it is because of the newly reached maturity, maybe it is because of the world that gets more and more radicalized, maybe it is the sense of and identity of encounter.

*Pierpaolo Punturello is a rabbi.

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IT HAPPENED TOMORROW

Dimension humaine

Guido Vitale

“Ce Festival est incroyable. C’est un merveilleux rassemblement de créateurs, d’œuvres et de passionnés. Il n’y a rien de semblable ailleurs dans le monde ! En plus, Angoulême possède un charme qui lui confère une dimension humaine”. (Chris Claremont, auteur)

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Athletes trek to Holocaust race in Rome

By Rossella Tercatin*

On October 16, 1943, 45-year-old Settimio Calò left his wife Clelia and their nine children comfortably asleep in their apartment when he snuck out at dawn, hoping he would be able to buy some cigarettes — a rare treat in Nazi-occupied Rome.
When he got home a few hours later, he found the place in Via del Portico D’Ottavia, the heart of the former Jewish Ghetto, completely empty. The Nazis had raided the neighborhood and rounded up over 1,000 Jews. Of them, only 15 men and one woman survived Auschwitz. All Calò’s children, including little Samuele, just a few months old, were murdered.

*This article was published in The Times of Israel on January 27, 2017.

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