{"id":24880,"date":"2019-01-28T16:21:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T15:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2019\/01\/giorno-memoria-iniziative-istituti-di-cultura-nel-mondo-2\/"},"modified":"2019-01-28T16:21:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T15:21:54","slug":"giorno-memoria-iniziative-istituti-di-cultura-nel-mondo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/retediplomatica\/2019\/01\/giorno-memoria-iniziative-istituti-di-cultura-nel-mondo\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembrance Day, Cultural Institute events in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Primo Levi, the Italian writer who bore witness to the Holocaust to a greater extent than anyone else, has been taking centre stage in a packed programme of events organised by Italian Embassies and Cultural Institutes throughout the world to commemorate Remembrance Day in 2019.\u00a0 The centenary of Levi\u2019s birth has provided the opportunity to dedicate exhibitions, debates, conferences and films to honour his life and works. Three meetings devoted to Levi\u2019s works have been planned by the Italian Cultural Institute in Amsterdam. The writer will be remembered in Athens with a screening of the films &#8216;La Tregua&#8217; (\u201cThe Truce\u201d) by Francesco Rosi, based on a book by the same name by Levi, and &#8216;Il Giardino dei Finzi Contini&#8217;\u00a0(\u201cThe Garden of the Finzi Continis\u201d), Vittorio De Sica\u2019s masterpiece. The Berlin Italian Cultural Institute organised a reading of the book \u2018The Truce\u2019 by Udo Samel, with musical accompaniment by Susanne Paul on cello.\u00a0 Levi\u2019s texts were also read in both Italian and English at an event organised by the Chicago Cultural Institute. A conference on Primo Levi was held in Copenhagen, while the Cultural Institute in Haifa analysed one of Levi\u2019s other important books, \u2018The Periodic Table\u2019. Actor Riccardo Bocci gave a theatrical reading of \u2018The Truce\u2019 in Los Angeles, while the Melbourne Italian Cultural Institute presented a screening of &#8216;Gli sci di Primo Levi&#8217; (\u201cPrimo Levi\u2019s skis\u201d) by Paola Toscano.\u00a0Events commemorating Remembrance Day in Pretoria, Caracas and Rabat were also dedicated to Primo Levi, with a guide to the reading of \u2018If this is a man\u2019 and \u2018The Wrench\u2019.\u00a0 The Paris Italian Cultural Institute commemorated the Shoah with a performance of the story of Irene Nemirovsky, the Jewish writer who died in Auschwitz in 1942. Remembrance Day in Brussels was dedicated to Andra and Tati Bucci, two sisters who survived Birkenau concentration camp and continue to accompany students visiting the camp to ensure the memory is kept alive. The first cartoon on the Shoah \u2018La stella di Andra e Tati\u2019 produced by the Italian broadcasting company RAI was based on their story and will be shown at the Cultural Institute with the two survivors in attendance. Finally, many other Italian diplomatic offices throughout the world have chosen to honour the memory of the victims of Nazism by showing the documentary \u2018Eravamo italiani\u2019 (\u201cWe Were Italians\u201d) by Ruggero Gabbai. It is a film that gathered witness accounts from Italian survivors who began to recount their stories after the death of Primo Levi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Primo Levi, the Italian writer who bore witness to the Holocaust to a greater extent than anyone else, has been taking centre stage in a packed programme of events organised by Italian Embassies and Cultural Institutes throughout the world to commemorate Remembrance Day in 2019.\u00a0 The centenary of Levi\u2019s birth has provided the opportunity to [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[32,7],"class_list":["post-24880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retediplomatica","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-italiani-nel-mondo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}