Memory
Memory
A special issue of i-Italy dedicated to an uncompromising critique of racism, past and present. This special issue is being regularly updated with new articles.
Being reminded of International Holocaust Remembrance Day makes me recall many things... past present and future..
"Italy does not forget. We still feel shame that this occurred in our country. This is why every year we read the names of the Italian victims of the Holocaust on the sidewalk in...
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...
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;...
"We need to build a world where all the national, linguistic, and religious groups become aware that there are, in fact, many minorities... Thus the suffering of the Jewish people...
Interview with Renato Miracco, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York: "When I moved to Poland for work, I immediately went to Auschwitz. I think it is mandatory...
Interview with Stefano Albertini, Director of Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at New York University: "Every day I read on newspapers of episodes of discrimination and violence...
Interview with Natalia Indrimi, Executive Director of the Primo Levi Center in New York: "Italian Jews have over 2,000 years of uninterrupted history. Identity is not something...
Interview with Barbara Faedda, Acting Director of the Italian Academy at Columbia University: "This year our aim is to study and discuss how Semitism and anti-Semitism were spread...
Tullia Zevi emigrated to the United States during Fascism. When she went back to Italy she joined the Partito d'Azione and then became journalist for the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv..
Four students of the "Scuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi" meet Stella Levi, one of the Italian deportees from Rhodes who survived the Nazi concentration camps.