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January 27, 2020 - Shevat 1, 5780

NEWS

SWG-Pagine Ebraiche poll: Holocaust Remembrance Day considered crucial
by growing number of Italians

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

An increasing number of Italians consider Holocaust Remembrance Day as a positive and crucial event, the 2020 edition of the SWG-Pagine Ebraiche poll has found.
In 2019, 25 percent of respondents said that they considered “right” remembering the Shoah and other victims of Nazi-fascism on January 27; in 2020, the number went up to 39 percent. It is a shift that, explained Swg Research Director Riccardo Grassi, needs to be considered in connection to the fact that there has been an increase in Italians who believe that anti-Semitic threat in the country still exists.

NEWS

Run for Mem races in Livorno

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Several hundred people participated in the event “Run for Mem” ahead of the Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The non-competitive race which aims to remember “the dramatic events of the Holocaust and the Second World War, while transmitting a message of hope, conveyed by the positive values of a day dedicated to sport shared with all citizens” took place in Livorno (Leghorn).
It was organized by the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) and the local Jewish Community.
The route covered about seven kilometers departing in front of the synagogue and included several other symbolic spots.

NEWS

Liliana Segre’s testimony: "I do not hate
and thus I am free"

By Pagine Ebraiche staff*

“I am ever so sorry to be ninety years old and not to have so many years to live. In spite of all my opponents, who constantly wish me dead, I would hate to die.” Senator Liliana Segre has dismissed with a smile those wasting their time on social networks wishing evil on or insulting her and has given a teaching to 2000 students who have gathered in Milan at Teatro Arcimboldi to listen to her speech. This appointment, organised by the Association Children of the Shoah and Corriere della Sera newspaper, has become nearly a tradition. While she was recounting her experience at Auschwitz camp, Segre declared that, all the same, people in the concentration camp “chose life.” “Life is a very important word which must not ever be forgotten as we can never go back,” underlined Segre receiving a standing ovation. “We must not waste a single minute of our life, which is extraordinary.”

Translated by Mattia Stefani, student Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreting and Translation of Trieste University and intern at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

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Der Tag des Gedenkens: eine Herausforderung

Anna Foa*

Der Tag des Gedenkens. Nach vielen Jahren, wo es so schien, dass man mit Rhetorik und Banalität überschwemmt war, ist dieser Tag jetzt wieder zur Herausforderung geworden. Und ich wünschte, dass es viele Menschen gäbe, die darüber geeinigt sind.

*Anna Foa, Historikerin. Übersetzung von Sara Facelli, Studentin der Hochschule für Dolmetscher und Übersetzer der Universität von Trieste und Praktikantin bei der Zeitungsredaktion der Union der jüdischen Gemeinden von Italien (UCEI).

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Lessons for today

By David Bidussa*

"The provocateurs, the abusers, all those who, in any way, do wrong to others are guilty’ not only of the evil they commit, but of the perversion to which they lead the souls of the offended." (Alessandro Manzoni, «The betrothed », Chapter II).
remembrance for tomorrow. Maybe even for today.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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ITALICS

Anti-Semitic graffiti scrawled
on Holocaust survivor’s door in Italy

By Collen Bary*

Anti-Semitic writing was scrawled overnight on the door of a now-deceased member of the Italian anti-Fascist resistance who survived a Nazi concentration camp, a family friend and historian wrote Friday on Facebook.
“Juden Hier,” German for “Jews Here,” with a Star of David was written in black paint on the door of the house in the Piedmont town of Mondovi, where Lidia Beccaria Rolfi lived until her death in 1996.
Her son Aldo Rolfi, who lives there now, reported the offensive graffiti to police, the news agency LaPresse reported.
University of Turin historian Bruno Maida noted on Facebook that the writing appeared after a local newspaper printed an article by Aldo Rolfi remembering his mother. It was titled: “The memory grows, but also anti-Semitism: The words of Lidia Rolfi anticipated today’s themes.”

*This AP article was published in The Times of Israel on January 24, 2020.

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