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Essay on Survival and Historical Truth

Jasha M. Levi

EDITORS' NOTE: Mr. Jasha M. Levi, a Yugoslav Jewish antifascist in the 1930s and a fighter against dictatorships and genocides for all his life, fled the Nazis and his native...

We Didn’t Come Over on the Mayflower!

Anthony Julian Tamburri

The ignorance of our history has cast some of our “paesani” into the hinterlands of bigotry and prejudice, and thus led them to their coincidental and shameful consequences of...

Nedo, Andrea and Talia

Letizia Airos

On the occasion of the Remembrance Day, i-Italy publishes again this interview released on 27th January 2009. An encounter with journalist Andrea Fiano, member of the Board of...

Keeping Memory Alive

Francesca Crozier-Fitzgerald

The Primo Levi Center organized an afternoon of commemoration and discussion about the Italian experience during the Holocaust; recognizing those who partook in the Antifascist...

Italy to Observe Holocaust Remembrance Day in the United States

A series of events in Washington DC and throughout the United States will honor the victims of the Holocaust

Cappuccino with Tullia Zevi

Maria Rita Latto

Tullia Zevi died Saturday at the age of 92. She was one of the historic post-war leaders of Italy's Jews and the only woman to ever hold the post of president of the country's...

An Authentic Voice from the Roman Jewish Ghetto

Benedetta Grasso

"Una Storia Romana" is a documentary that takes us back to Rome, in 1943 when a young girl, Enrica Sermoneta, managed to survive the deportation and the difficult economic...

Thousands of Names and Emotions on Park Avenue

Marina Melchionda

On January 27, 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. Here are some of...

Holocaust Remembrance day in Europe and Italy

Maria Rita Latto

January 27 marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the date when victims of the Shoah are remembered in celebrations and memorial services throughout Europe, from Poland...

De-Portees: an Artistic & Conceptual Look at the Holocaust

BENEDETTA GRASSO

The exhibit De/Portees by the contemporary artist Jack Sal opened on January 27 2010 at The Italian Cultural Institute, during the annual reading of the names of the deported...

Voices from the Italian Shoah. Reading Testimonies

B. G.

January 27, 6PM. Robert Zukerman and Antoinette La Vecchia, accompanied by Steve Elson, read excerpts of "Il libro della Shoah" at the Primo Levi Center in NYC

Fratelli d'Italia? Remembering Platform 21

BENEDETTA GRASSO

An interesting new Italian documentary, that will come out on January 27 with "Corriere della Sera" and that explores a not so well-known side of Italian history during the tragic...

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