Remembrance Day 2010 in New York

The Giornata della Memoria / Remembrance Day (January 27) was established by the Italian Parliament on July 11, 2000, to commemorate the Italian Jewish victims of Nazi and Fascist persecution.  Every year all the Italian institutions located in New York collaborate to organize a full calendar of events, focused on one or more specifical topics. This year's topics are the history of the Jewish community of Rome and civilian internment in Fascist Italy. In this special issue you will find all our articles related to the celebration of this anniversary. We present a video about one of the core events - the reading of all the names of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust outside the Consulate General of Italy in NYC -, and interviews with some of the illustrious protagonists of this year's commemoration, including Carlo Lizzani, the Italian director of "L'Oro di Roma" ; Professor Alberto Melloni, holder of Unesco Chair for Religious Pluralism and Peace; Carlo Spartaco Capogreco, major expert in Italian internment camps and president of Fondazione Ferramonti; and Daniela di Castro, Director of the Jewish Meseum in Rome.