Remembrance Day 2023. The undersecretary to the Prime Minister, Alfredo Mantovano, and the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCEI) Noemi Di Segni, presented to the press the initiatives sponsored by the Prime Minister's Office to commemorate the Holocaust. It is a series of 5 events.
The events promoted by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers
The first event is the "Concerto della memoria 2023", which will be held in Rome on January 23 at the Teatro dell'Opera with the preview of the docufilm "Il Respiro di Shlomo" by Ruggero Gabbai and the voice of the violin by Jan Hillenbrand. The instrument was played for 5 years in the Lager Kapelle of Auschwitz, recovered and restored by the Institute of Concentrationary Musical Literature of Barletta. The musician Vincenzo Bolognese, concertmaster of the Rome Opera will perform the music of Auschwitz recovered and arranged by Maestro Francesco Lotoro. Also scheduled is the sixth edition of the non-competitive race for memory to discover the "places of memory", which will be held on January 29 in Milan.
The inauguration of the tenth edition of the exhibition “1938-1945. The persecution of the Jews in Italy. Documents for a story”, which will take place in Trieste on 24 January. For the occasion, period documents, texts and photos made available by the Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center of Milan (CDEC) will be exhibited. And other documentation of historical significance made available by the State Archives of Trieste. The inauguration of the exhibition with the provisional title "The fields of death: Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka" is scheduled, which will take place on January 26 in Rome in the Casina dei Vallati. The exhibition, organized by the non-profit Holocaust Museum Foundation, tells the story of Aktion Reinhardt, the code name for the extermination project of Polish Jews within the General Government.
The ever-living memory of the Shoah
And finally, the inauguration of the eleventh edition of the biennial exhibition of contemporary art "Arte in Memoria", organized on 29 January in the Synagogue of ancient Ostia by the cultural association "Arte in memoria". This is the biennial of contemporary art which every two years, on the occasion of Memorial Day, invites internationally renowned artists to produce an original work on the theme of memory.
Remembrance Day was established by law n.211 of 20 July 2000 in order to remember the Holocaust, the racial laws, the persecution of the Jews. Those who suffered deportation, imprisonment and death and those who opposed the extermination, risking their lives to save others. The coordination of the initiatives sponsored by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers is entrusted to the Coordination Committee for the celebrations in memory of the Holocaust, established in 2009.
Thank you, I am moved by remembering the Jewish people who have suffered so much in every moment Arturo Malvasio