Remembrance Day: the Embassy in Berlin hosts a concert
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 […]
Read moreInternational Holocaust Remembrance Day: Kaztir’s documentary screened in Abu Dhabi
On 27 January, the Italian Embassy in the United Arab Emirates and the Italian Cultural Institute in Abu Dhabi commemorated the International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a joint initiative, organised – for the first time – in conjunction with Dubai’s “Crossroads of Civilizations Museum,” which has been hosting, since last year, “We Remember,” the first […]
Read moreItaly, Torre del Greco supports Tanzanian Albinos
In the framework of the Italian and Tanzanian civil society relations, Ambassador Marco Lombardi joined today the ceremony of delivery of spectacles and sunglasses to the Tanzania Albinism Society from Italy, Torre del Greco, Ottica di MarioGiordano and Alfonso Vitiello of D’Elia Company. Lombardi, in underling the importance of “People-to-People” relations between Italy and Tanzania, […]
Read moreInternational Holocaust Remembrance Day: webinar on Sephardic communities in Lisbon
To commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, the Italian Embassy in Lisbon has organized a multidisciplinary online meeting (16:00 – 17:00 CET) entitled “For a collective memory: Sephardic communities in Italy between the Diaspora and the Shoah.” The event, which is taking place today, 27 January, is organized in partnership with the Chair of Sephardic […]
Read moreInternational Holocaust Remembrance Day: Shabbat Shalom online concert in Istanbul
“Shabbat Shalom”, an online concert of the duo Delilah Gutman and Refael Negri, will be held today, 27 January, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, following an initiative of the Italian Cultural Institute in Istanbul and CIDIM (Italian National Committee of Music). “Shabbat Shalom” explores, through the lyrics and tradition of Yemenite, Sephardic and Klezmer songs from […]
Read moreInternational Holocaust Remembrance Day: an interview with Dacia Maraini in Detroit
The Consulate of Italy in Detroit and the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan commemorated the International Holocaust Remembrance Day with two screenings: an interview with writer Dacia Maraini, who shared her experience in a concentration camp, and the movie “Un cielo stellato sopra il ghetto di Roma” [A Starry Sky above the Roman Ghetto], directed […]
Read moreInternational Holocaust Remembrance Day: commemoration ceremony held in Park Avenue, New York
On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Italy’s Consulate General in New York hosted the traditional ceremony – organised alongside Centro Primo Levi – during which the names of the Italian deportees are read out. This year too the event was held on the sidewalk of Park Avenue, just outside the Consulate and […]
Read moreRemembrance Day: Tokyo hosts a concert and a film screening
The Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo celebrated Holocaust Remembrance Day with a concert and the screening of the film ‘’1938. Quando scoprimmo di non essere più italiani’’, by director Pietro Suber. The concert is a journey into the Klezmer music culture and Yiddish songs, a genre that vaunts a four-century-old history and having travelled through […]
Read moreInternational Holocaust Remembrance Day: Stranger and the influence of Primo Levi
The Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Oslo presents Simon Stranger’s book ‘’Leksikon om lys og mørke – Il solo modo per dirsi addio’’ to mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The book narrates the story of a Jewish family, who after the war decided to move into the house of Nazi Henry Rinnan, where he […]
Read moreInternational Holocaust Remembrance Day: Belgrade hosts a conference entitled ”From the inexpressible to the invisible.”
To mark the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Belgrade hosts an online debate entitled ”From the inexpressible to the invisible: interpreting the Remembrance of the Shoah through documents and projects. A dialogue between architecture and history.“ Guido Morpurgo and Milovan Pisarri will discuss the topic, with contributions by Ambassador […]
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