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January 27, Remembrance Day: Ordinary Italians and Genocide 1943-45

Simon Levis Sullam

What is a genocide and how does it occur? This is a question that we Italians can and should ask as Remembrance Day (January 27th) approaches again this year. We should ask...

Breaking the Silence, Yet Again

Letizia Airos



Reflections on indifference and forgetfulness between musical notes as the names of families deported to Auschwitz are read on Park Avenue. Against the ever-present risk of...

Nedo, Andrea and Talia

Letizia Airos

On the occasion of the Remembrance Day, i-Italy publishes again this interview released on 27th January 2009. An encounter with journalist Andrea Fiano, member of the Board of...

Keeping Memory Alive

Francesca Crozier-Fitzgerald

The Primo Levi Center organized an afternoon of commemoration and discussion about the Italian experience during the Holocaust; recognizing those who partook in the Antifascist...

Cappuccino with Tullia Zevi

Maria Rita Latto

Tullia Zevi died Saturday at the age of 92. She was one of the historic post-war leaders of Italy's Jews and the only woman to ever hold the post of president of the country's...

Nedo, Andrea and Talia

Letizia Airos Soria

An encounter with journalist Andrea Fiano, member of the Board of Directors of the Primo Levi Center (NYC). He is the son of Nedo Fiano, an Auschwitz survivor, and the father of...

Italian, American & Jewish

Ottorino Cappelli

Interview with Anthony Julian Tamburri, Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (CUNY): "As an Italian in the US you were automatically identified as a Catholic;...

For a Peaceful Union of Minorities

Amos Luzzatto

The former President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities: "We need to build a world where all the national, linguistic, and religious groups become aware that there all...

Taking History to the Street

Francesco Maria Talò

The Consul General of Itlay in New York opens i-italy's special issue dedicated to Remembrance day: "Italy does not forget. We still feel shame that this occurred in our country."

Memoria al Futuro

The Editors

A special issue of i-Italy dedicated to Remembrance Day. For an uncompromising critique of racism, past and present - in Italy, in America, and everywhere in the World.

“You Who Live Securely in Your Warm Homes…”

Letizia Airos Soria

The screening of the film L’isola delle rose: La tragedia di un paradiso (Island of Roses: The Tragedy of a Paradise) written and directed by Rebecca Samonà was accompanied by...

Remembering Italian Shoah

In the year 2000, January 27, the day on which, in 1945, the Soviet army entered and liberated Auschwitz, was chosen by Italy and other European countries to commemorate the...

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