On «7» the interview with the Jewish writer who was deported from Hungary. Events throughout Italy for January 27, the Day of Remembrance, including testimonies, debates, shows, meetings
At Auschwitz, the line of deportees where his mother was went straight to the gas chamber. She was saved only because she found herself, pushed away, in the next row: in view of the Day of Remembrance, Friday 21 on «7» writer and poet Edith Bruck – who in 2021 she was named Knight of the Grand Cross by Sergio Mattarella and received a visit from Pope Francis – is told from his Roman home in the extensive cover story of the weekly, in an interview by Alessia Rastelli.
Bruck’s gaze, who experienced the tragedy of the death camps, testifies with extreme clarity the unspeakable. He did it all his life in schools, and in his books. And it also does in Letter to the mother (the new edition comes out Thursday 19 from La nave di Teseo) in the form of a posthumous epistle to that mother lost in the concentration camp, who was so different from her adolescent but to whom she was viscerally united. Last year, moreover, the author won the Strega Giovani and was a finalist at the Strega Prize with The lost bread (also published by La nave di Teseo), in which he retraced his existence.
In the interview with «7» Bruck remembers both those who asked her, in Bergen Belsen, «if you survive, tell us too», and the difficult return to life after the concentration camp. Among the evidence that would still await her was the loss of a figure like Primo Levi, who was her friend and phoned her four days before his disappearance. But Bruck also recalls what gave her strength, such as the meeting with the poet and director Nelo Risi, then her husband, the value of writing, for her “full of words”, as testimony and commitment. The writer also observes the present time, the mounting nationalisms (including that of Orbán, in the Hungary that gave her birth), the hatred also spread online. A poet’s gaze, which widens to the pandemic, with her weeping for the coffins on the trucks, the silence of the days of the lockdown, of which she wrote in her verses.
The witness
Testimonies such as that of Edith Bruck, but also debates, meetings, concerts, return (this year also in the presence, with the appropriate safety regulations) to celebrate the Memorial Day, January 27. Among the events organized in Rome by the Shoah Museum Foundation, there will be Passages of Memory, January 27 at the Teatro Palladium in Rome (8 pm): after the greetings of the president of the Mario Venezia Foundation, a monologue by Stefano Massini will be staged, followed by a meeting with Edith Bruck; among the participants, Furio Colombo, Micol Pavoncello, the witness Sami Modiano on video.
Regurgitation dangerous is denial: Donatella Di Cesare talks about it in Rome, Monday 24, in attendance at the Cinema Farnese (8 pm). The philosopher has dedicated to the theme If Auschwitz is nothing. Against denial (Bollati Boringhieri), who will present with Mario Venezia, Marco Damilano, director of “L’Espresso”, the chief rabbi of Rome Riccardo Di Segni, and the founder of the Community of Sant’Egidio Andrea Riccardi.
The Garden of the Righteous
Numerous events also in Milan. Gariwo, the forest of the Righteous proposes the show on Tuesday 25th The Memorioso. Brief guide to the memory of the good, inspired by the books of Gabriele Nissim (Centro Asteria, 10 am). On Thursday 27 the association will also offer students guided tours of the Garden of the Righteous. And in the meantime he proposes the collective volume Questions about memory (published with the Cafoscarina publishing house), with contributions from well-known scholars, including Francesco M. Cataluccio, Marcello Flores, Anna Foa. The book starts from the essential memory of the Shoah, for also reflect on what is happening to other peoples today. And to make sure that “Never again” is a commitment for the present and the future.
The visits, the meetings
The Memorial of the Shoah in Milan organizes an in-person and digital program, which it preserves the memory of a terrible place from which the trains for the concentration camps left. In attendance, on Tuesday 25th, it hosts the screening of the documentary 1938: Italian sport against Jews, conceived by Matteo Marani and produced by Sky, and a debate with Roberto Jarach, president of the Memorial Foundation, Federico Ferri, director of Sky, and others (6.30 pm). Furthermore, on the 27th, the Memorial will be open to free visits: the reception will be managed in collaboration with the inmates of the 2nd Prison House of Milan Bollate. The program on the Memorial’s Facebook page is also dense: among the meetings, Monday 24 (6 pm) we talk about Law and Judaism, with Giorgio Sacerdoti, Piergaetano Marchetti, Daniela Dawan, Marco Vigevani; on the 30th (3 pm) the meeting with Marilisa D’Amico and Milena Santerini.
The memory in the theater
At the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, in the foyer of the boxes, the Concert for the Day of Remembrance is held on the 24th (4.30 pm), organized by the Municipality, Anpi and the Sons of the Shoah Association. The concert will be held on the 27th (8.30 pm) at the Verdi Conservatory in Milan Music prohibited as an instrument of resistance. Blues, Swing and Jazz organized with Sons of the Shoah, Cdec Foundations and Shoah Memorial. Also in Venice, at the Teatro La Fenice, on the 23rd (11 am), the reading. Between the sea and the sand.
Boys
Among the numerous initiatives for the youngest, on January 27 the event dedicated to schools The sky is too small. Music, readings and testimonies from the Terezín ghetto at the Milan Conservatory, organized by the Sons of the Shoah association (which broadcasts it from its YouTube channel) and curated by Matteo Corradini. The meeting remembers the children of Terezín, of whom a few thousand drawings and a few dozen poems have come down to us.
Sardinia: Odyssey of an inmate
Anyone weighing less than 35 kilos was killed: the prisoner Vittorio Palmas, a soldier, weighed 37 and was saved. A survivor of the Bergen Belsen concentration camp, he recalled: “I’m alive for 2 kilos.” It is inspired by its story, told in the book by Giacomo Mameli The acorn is a cherry (The Mistral) the show Story of a thin man, by the actor director Paolo Floris: on the initiative of the Pane e Cioccolata Association, and with the support of the Foundation of Sardinia, the show will celebrate the Day of Remembrance with fifteen performances in thirteen centers of Sardinia, until February 2, involving 1,600 students of the middle and high schools. Floris’ show recalls the life of the Sardinian soldier, his imprisonment in the concentration camp and the fate of those who did not return: Anne Frank also died in the same concentration camp. Before the recital, the singing of the «Murales» choir from Orgosolo. Among the reruns of the show, an appointment on Thursday 20 January in Lanusei (Nuoro), Friday 21 in Oschiri (Sassari), and Thursday 27 in Oristano and Orgosolo.
The date of January 27
The Day of Remembrance was established by law in 2000 in Italy and internationally in 2005 by the UN to commemorate the victims of the Nazi extermination of Jews during the Second World War. January 27 was chosen as the date, the day on which, in 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the main extermination camp used by the SS to eliminate the Jews deported from occupied countries throughout Europe.
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