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April 28, 2020 - Iyar 3, 5780

NEWS

Italian Jewish community marks
Liberation Day

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

The Italian Jewish community celebrated April 25, the Day of Liberation from the Nazi-Fascism regimes with several online events.
“We celebrated April 25, not by filling the squares but virtually, with the heart, in our homes, recalling what the day of Liberation from Nazi-fascism means, a day which we want to remember through the memory of the Jewish Brigade: young and very young soldiers who came from mandated Palestine and from other countries to be alongside the Resistance, to the partisans and allies, to free our Italy, to give us freedom,” the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) Noemi Di Segni said opening the special event created by the UCEI for the 75th anniversary of the Liberation and dedicated to the heroes of the Jewish Brigade.

NEWS

76 years later, Ardeatine Caves'
victim identified

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

Marian Reicher, a Polish Jew, was 43 years old when he was killed by the Nazis in the Fosse Ardeatine massacre in Rome. 76 years later, his body has finally been identified through a DNA test comparing Marian’s biological data with his son David’s. David is currently living in Israel and made himself available to carry out such a test last September.
“One more missing piece has been found,” wrote the Minister of Defence in a note, “thanks to the work by the General Commissariat for the War Fallen, with the help of the Carabineer’s Scientific Investigation Department and of Florence University’s Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology” and thanks to the collaboration that the General Commissariat for the War Fallen has started with the National Association of Italian Families’ Martyrs of the Fosse Ardeatine and with the Jewish Community of Rome.

Translated by Sara Facelli and revised by Claudia Azzalini, students at the Advanced School for Interpreting and Translation of Trieste University and interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

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Remembering names in the time of crisis

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By Pagine Ebraiche staff

“This year, I will not be able to light the candle to remember our 6 million dead, but I am with them. I do remember those I met, who did not come back to tell their stories. They are distant voices, but they are ever-present in my life. I know many names by heart and every time I would like to say them out loud: Alberto, Olga, Giuseppe Segre. And all the others I met with a glance, which meant the world to me,” said Liliana Segre.
On this year’s Yom HaShoah, she could not light a candle in Milan Synagogue, as she used to do in past years in remembrance of the victims of the Nazi-Fascist genocide and of her relatives murdered in Auschwitz. Thanks to the Association Children of the Shoah, Segre and other children and grandchildren of survivors had the chance to commemorate their families on a virtual space. On the occasion of Yom HaShoah, the Association launched a video collecting testimonies. In addition to Liliana Segre’s, the most significant are those by Rosa Bauer, Amiel Shek, Maya Maggi, Gadi Schoenheit, Emanuele Fiano and his son Davide.

Translated by Claudia Azzalini and revised by Mattia Stefani, both students at the Advanced School for Interpreting and Translation of Trieste University and interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

bechol lashon - français

Que va-t-on chanter
le 25 avril?

Anna Foa*

Ils ne lâchent jamais la prise, même pas au cœur de la pandémie. Au contraire, le coronavirus devient l’occasion rêvée pour tenter encore une fois d’enrayer la Fête de la Libération, la Résistance et l’antifascisme. Il s’agirait de rendre hommage aux morts, y compris ceux du Covid-19. Qu’est-ce censé vouloir dire dans la pratique pour notre pays?

*Anna Foa, historienne. Traduit par Mattia Stefani et révisé par Sara Facelli, étudiants de l’École Supérieure pour les Interprètes et les Traducteurs de Trieste et stagiaires dans le bureau du journal de l’Union des communautés juives italiennes.

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An idea for our time

By David Bidussa*

In my opinion, a word for this time is redemption. That is, a new beginning which means: things that should not to be repeated; way that should be abandoned; new forms of individual and collective action; a renovated idea of a civil pact to give a new course to our time to live. This idea of redemption is aware its body is immersed in the tight spots of this time, but which cannot help thinking about what comes after, without regrets and with a huge longing for the future.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

ITALICS

On centenary, San Remo Conference hailed
as ‘seminal moment’ in Zionist history

By Raphael Ahren*

Presidents, prime ministers and other senior officials on Sunday celebrated the centenary of the San Remo Conference as a milestone of Zionist history that paved the way to the establishment of a Jewish state.
In late April 1920, the UK, France, Italy, Japan and later the US (as an observer) convened in the northwestern Italian town and decided to divide the Ottoman empire into three parts. One of them later became the British Mandate of Palestine.
Presidents, prime ministers and other senior officials on Sunday celebrated the centenary of the San Remo Conference as a milestone of Zionist history that paved the way to the establishment of a Jewish state.
In late April 1920, the UK, France, Italy, Japan and later the US (as an observer) convened in the northwestern Italian town and decided to divide the Ottoman empire into three parts. One of them later became the British Mandate of Palestine.

*The article was published in the Times of Israel on April 27, 2020.

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