January 27 is Holocaust Remembrance Day. An entire day dedicated to the memory of the Shoah and to the millions of victims of the genocide that took place during the Second World War. A way not to forget, trying to raise awareness among the new generations, so as to prevent such events from happening again in the future.
Because January 27
It is natural to ask why the date of the 27st January to remember the victims of the Shoah. What happened on this day in 1945? It is a strongly symbolic date, which he remembers the demolition of the gates of Auschwitz by the Soviet troops of the Red Army. Thus, for the first time, all the horror of the genocide was revealed to the world.
About 7 thousand survivors were found, who had escaped the horrors of that period and the madness of the last day of the SS. Now certain of the defeat, the Nazis destroyed part of the concentration camp, shooting at the detainees, as if in a desperate attempt to erase the traces of what had been done. The survivors were joined by dead bodies, as well as clothes, shoes and hair, not to mention the many instruments of torture and death.
When Remembrance Day was established
The United Nations General Assembly has chosen January 27 as the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Shoah. It was the 2005, when it was 60 years since the liberation of the concentration camps. In Italy all this began 5 years earlier, in 2000. The date is identical, chosen by the Italian Parliament to commemorate the atrocities committed. The same date also for Germany, which established this day in 1996.
Memorial Day 2022, the initiatives
- Torino: the Polo del '900 cultural center coordinates the schedule of events. There was the laying of 8 new stumbling blocks, by the Diffuse Museum of the Resistance. A physical and digital program, active until the beginning of February
- Milan: 24 new stumbling blocks will be laid until March 1, adding to the other 120 present from 2017. Milano è Memoria is the name of the rich program set up, with exhibitions, concerts, guided tours, podcasts and book presentations
- Milan: free guided tours of the Garden of the Righteous and discovering who the Righteous were, that is the Milanese who risked or lost their lives during the war to protect human rights
- Bergamo: the city participates in the Stumbling Stones project. Seven will be added. Part of a rich schedule, including meetings, podcasts, readings, exhibitions, cinema and theater
- Venice: 30 new stumbling blocks and over 60 events across the city, including conferences, exhibitions and book presentations. Insights on Max Ernst at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
- Ferrara: new Festival of Memories of the Municipal Theater of Ferrara, with witnesses and authoritative voices from the world of culture
- Bologna: the stories of 76 Italians recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous among the Nations are retraced. Stories of courage and selflessness
- Florence: the Uffizi Gallery bought Fiamma, a female portrait made by Rudolf Levy, the great German Jewish painter of the twentieth century. It is now on display at the Pitti Palace
- Rome: Memory generates Future is a review of more than 60 appointments, face to face and online, running until February 7
- Napoli: extraordinary concert at the San Carlo Theater, entitled The Time of the End. Four lives in the Gorlitz apocalypse
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