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  • Facts & Stories

    9.117 Names to Never Forget

    Paola Aurisicchio(January 29, 2016)
    Again this year the City has commemorated the Holocaust victims by reading the names of over nine thousand Jews deported from Italy during the Nazi-fascist persecution. The readers were representatives of the Institutions, members of the Italian and Jewish communities, students and New York personalities like John Turturro.
  • Events: Reports

    Oro Macht Frei

    I. I.(January 08, 2015)
    Screening of documentary, "Oro Macht Frei".a 70 minute film about the Roman Jews and the period of anti-Jewish perscution in Italy from Mussolini's Racial Laws through the Nazi occupation of Rome. January 25th, 2:30pm Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Park Plaza
  • Facts & Stories

    Remembrance Day is Really for Everyone Else

    Andrea Fiano(January 26, 2014)
    The Point of participating in one of the many upcoming events scheduled in New York City. Remembrance Day is not for the victims; they can’t forget. And they certainly don’t need a special anniversary to do so. As the son of an Auschwitz survivor arrested in Florence, I don’t need a special date either.
  • 2012 New York International Holocaust Remembrance Day
    Op-Eds

    Breaking the Silence, Yet Again

    Letizia Airos(February 03, 2012)
    

Reflections on indifference and forgetfulness between musical notes as the names of families deported to Auschwitz are read on Park Avenue. Against the ever-present risk of non-acceptance of the “Other.”
  • Facts & Stories

    Remembrance Day - Reading and Music

    (January 26, 2012)
    New York City. On January 27, Giornata della memoria, we gathered outside the Consulate General of Italy on Park Avenue to read the names of the thousands of Italian Jewish victims of the Holocaust. This year the traditional ceremony is enrich with a new feature: the invitation to the public is not just the one to read, but to play music as a counterpoint to the ongoing reading. Among the performing artists, guitarist and arranger Brandon Ross, composer and conductor Lawrence "Butch" Morris, multi-instrumentalist Avram Fefer, guitarist Marco Cappelli, bass player Bernd Klug, and musician Mauro Pagani who will play the violin.
  • Facts & Stories

    “Giorno della Memoria” (Remembrance Day). A “Call for Musicians”

    F. G.(January 12, 2012)
    The Consulate General of Italy has once again joined forces with Primo Levi Center, the Italian Cultural Institute, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU, John D. Calandra Institute at CUNY, Italian Academy at Columbia University, Scuola d’Italia “Guglielmo Marconi”, i-Italy.org and Rai Corporation, and will enrich the traditional ceremony with a new and suggestive feature: the invitation to the public is not just the one to read, but to play music as a counterpoint to the ongoing reading.