To celebrate Holocaust Remembrance Day 2022, the Italian Embassy in Berlin hosted the “All’Ombra delle tue ali” concert, an event co-organised with Maestro Francesco Lotoro, the founder of the Istituto di Letteratura Musicale Concentrazionaria (ILMC – Institute of Concentrationary Musical Literature).
Italian Ambassador Armando Varricchio, emphasised that “music carries out a very important role for social memory” and specified that with this initiative “an effort was made to especially bear witness to how the barbarity planned 80 years ago actually missed its target: we have hosted the fruit of the creativity of the same people and of the same culture that they intended to eliminate, thus making them live anew and, in fact, assuring them life eternal”.
Ambassador Varricchio also joined the #WeRemember campaign promoted by the World Jewish Congress and sponsored by UNESCO to remember the Holocaust and to support the struggle against antisemitism and racism. “Memory is a civil, energetic and compelling sentiment: an authentic passion,” the Ambassador added.
The concert at the Italian Embassy was attended by Felix Klein, the Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany, representatives of the Bundestag, and by Sibylle Sorg, German Federal Foreign Office Director-General for Relations with European Union Member States.
