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Memoria al Futuro - Remembrance Day In NYC

This special issue of i-Italy, available also in print, is dedicated to Remembrance Day and it is our contribution to the many initiatives that the Italian and Italian/American communities promote in New York to commemorate the liberation of Auschwitz.

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Memoria Al Futuro - Editorial

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.

Remembrance of Jews past, but never lost

Jerry Krase

Being reminded of International Holocaust Remembrance Day makes me recall many things... past present and future..

Memoria al Futuro: A Video Selection

The videos, selected from materials uploaded on YouTube by different users, examine three well-known Italian figures, each having a special relation to the tragic history of the...

Taking History to the Street

Francesco Maria Talò Consul General of Italy in New York

"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...

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

"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...

A Walk Through Places of Memory

Marina Melchionda

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...

Learning from Our Mistakes

Marina Melchionda

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...

The Italian Jewish Way

Eleonora Mazzucchi

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...

Anti-Semitism Across Borders

Marina Melchionda

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...

Cappuccino with Tullia Zevi

Maria Rita Latto

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..

Monte Sole: Film & Memory

Giovanna Landolfi

Interview with Germano Maccioni, director of the movie "Lo Stato d’eccezione". He followed and recorded the 2007 court proceedings against several Nazi officers and soldiers...

Mihail Karavokiros: An Italian Passport for Hope

Damiano Beltrami

When Max Dolgizer, a 54-year-old New York manager and art collector, was recently told that a number of his relatives were saved from the Shoah in Riga by a bold Greek man and an...

Levi’s Ulysses

Franco Baldasso

“Memory is a wonderful means, but fallible”, claimed Levi. While using it as a powerful device for gaining knowledge and truth, he warned against the dangers of its...

Tutti da Stella

Elio Di Muccio, Angelo Russo, Stefano Longobardi, & Bruno Fortunato

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.

Portare la storia nelle strade (versione italiana)

Francesco Maria Talò, Console Generale d'Italia a New York

"Ho deciso con alcune istituzioni italiane di attribuire un carattere particolare alle commemorazioni promosse dal nostro paese a New York. Ecco il senso della lettura dei nomi...

Nedo, Andrea e Talia (versione italiana)

Letizia Airos Soria

Incontro con il giornalista Andrea Fiano, membro del Consiglio Direttivo del Centro Primo Levi di New York. Andrea è figlio di Nedo, sopravvissuto ad Auschwitz, e padre di Talia,...

Per un'unione pacifica di tutte le minoranze (versione italiana)

Amos Luzzatto

Bisogna creare un mondo dove tutte le componenti nazionali, linguistiche, religiose, acquistino la coscienza di essere in realtà altrettante minoranze. Così la sofferenza reale...

Cappuccino con Tullia Zevi (versione italiana)

Maria Rita Latto

Tullia Zevi emigrò negli Stati Uniti durante il Fascismo. Quando tornò in Italia si unì al Partito d'Azione e divenne in seguito giornalista per il quotidiano israeliano...

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