The Italian Cultural Institute in Oslo has organised a Conference on 25 January to mark the Holocaust Remembrance Day. The topic will be the discrimination and persecution of Jewish Italian citizens during Fascism and will be addressed by Professor Elisabetta Cassina Wolff from the University of Oslo.
The discussion will focus, in particular, on the understanding and processing of the Shoah by the scientific community and the Italian public; the level of awareness of the crimes perpetrated on Italian soil by Italian citizens themselves, and possible gaps and shortcomings in the narrative of the Holocaust in Italy. Light will also be shed on the possibility that culture and politics may have concealed or omitted important aspects of the persecution of Italian Jews. Professor Wolff who, during her years of study on Fascism in Europe and on Italian neo-Fascism, in particular, has also worked on the subject of anti-Semitism in Italy during Mussolini’s regime and after 1945, will try to shed light on these aspects, by also showing a series of pictures of the most interesting places in Italy for this chapter of Italian history.
Since 1994 Elisabetta Cassina Wolff has been working in Oslo as a political analyst at the Europa-programmet Foundation, as a Professor at several universities and colleges, and as a freelance journalist. She obtained a PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Oslo in 2008, with a thesis on the ideological currents of Italian neo-Fascism.. Since 2011 she has been an associate Professor and lecturer in the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History at the University of Oslo, where she teaches modern and contemporary European history.
