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March 25, 2019 - Adar II, 18, 5779

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The Bucci Sisters Go Back to Fiume
for the Installation of the Stolpersteine
in Honor of Their Relatives

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Shoah survivors Andra and Tatiana Bucci were among the very few children who were liberated from Auschwitz. They will return to their hometown, Fiume, on March 28, 2019.
Seventy-five years after their arrest, the Bucci sisters will attend the installation of the Stolpersteine devoted to the remembrance of the members of their family that perished in the Holocaust. In front of the building of Via Pomerio 15, nine “stumbling blocks" will remember Mira Perlow Bucci, Mario Perlow, Sonia Perlow, Jossi Perlow, Aron Perlow, Carola Braun Perlow, Rosa Farberow Perlow and Silvio Perlow, together with their young cousin Sergio De Simone who was visiting them with his mother to escape the bombing in Naples.

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In the name of Captain Enrico Levi

By Pagine Ebraiche staff*

There’s a new exciting challenge for Giovanni Bloisi, the so-called “Remembrance cyclist”, already known by our readers thanks to his tenacious actions and civil passion. He rode his bike to the most relevant European locations tied to the Shoah, he chewed up the miles to bring new light and attention to the historic events of the Sciesopoli building, the former fascist Selvino colony that saved hundreds of children from the annihilation.
Now there’s an unprecedented itinerary on the tracks of a group of Jews, struggling against the regime, who crossed the Nazi-Fascist borders with their bikes to join the Allies. At a later stage, they played a very important role in southern Italy’s immigration towards the rising Jewish state.

*Translated by Simone Simonazzi, student at the Advanced School for Interpreters and Translators of Trieste University, intern at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

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A Tram, a Fugitive and a Painter in Rome

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Emanuele Di Porto was barely 13 years old when he managed to avoid arrest during the Nazi raid in the old ghetto of Rome on October 16, 1943. The streetcar operators of Atac, the public company that ran (and still does) the public transportation in Rome protected him, hiding him for 48 hours inside a tram.
The story has moved and inspired Jewish Libyan artist Giorgio Ortona.
Born in Tripoli, Ortona was forced to leave the country together with thousands of his fellow Jews in the sixties. A painter, Ortona asked Atac if he could visit their warehouses and there he found a lot of material that inspired him.

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Cauchemars

Dario Calimani*

Un enfant immunodéprimé après des traitements lourds contre une leucémie, une salle de classe où il n’a pas pu entrer parce que peut-être que tous ses copains n’avaient pas été vaccinés, et un assaut d’insultes, de menaces et de fichages personnels contre sa famille sur les réseaux sociaux. Une famille, coupable seulement d’avoir protégé l’état immunitaire de son fils, est devenue ainsi, tout à coup, la cible d’injures, d’accusations et de violentes attaques. Une famille traitée comme si elle était pestiférée, et entourée non pas d’affection et de chaleur humaine, mais de haine et de mépris. C’est le signe des temps. Le monde qui nous entoure devient de jour en jour plus méconnaissable.

*Dario Calimani, Université de Venise. Traduction de Claudia Azzalini, aidée par Sara Facelli, étudiantes de l’École Supérieure pour Traducteurs et Interprètes de l’Université de Trieste et stagiaires au journal de l’Union des Communautés Hébraïques Italiennes.

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The Current Times
and Fascism

By David Bidussa*

“Fascism gathered many legitimate causes of social anger and it systematically turned them into wrongs, into constant oppression, and into denial of human values. If we may find an analogy to the present times, it lies in this double constitutive dimension,” explained Antonio Scurati speaking at the Feltrinelli Foundation in Milan during an event entitled, “Angry, Disappointed,and Party-less. Fascism 100 years ago”. The event was an opportunity to talk about Mussolini, but also about ourselves and our current problems. Perhaps in Italy there is still hope that some original thinking intellectuals still exist.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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These EU states just took a stand for Israel
at the UN Human Rights Council

By Cnaan Liphshiz*

In a major policy reversal by Western members of the United Nations Human Rights Council, all its European Union member states voted against a permanent item singling out Israel.
The vote Friday was the first time that EU members states, plus Brazil and Japan, have voted against Item 7 — a recurrent draft resolution that is the only permanent item on the agenda singling out any one nation.
The EU states currently on the council are Austria, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Spain and the United Kingdom.
The draft resolution passed, despite the Western opposition: while 16 opposed it, including Australia, 26 were in favor.
Whereas European nations in recent years have abstained by and large in votes on Item 7 at Human Rights Council sessions, this year they made a joint stand against the item, citing its “imbalance,” as the representative of Bulgaria said in a statement representing the bloc. (Five nations on the council abstained.)

*The article was published in The Jewish Telegraphic Agency on March 22, 2019.

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