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Sharing and learning remembrance

meeting in Potsdam

From 6 to 10 May in Potsdam conference Sharing and learning remembrance – Memory culture(s) in the 21st century was held by the German non-profit organization Mostar Friedensprojekt. Gariwo sent Carolina Figini of the Editorial Staff and Professor Salvatore Pennisi of the Teaching commission. Their comments inside.

Salvatore Pennisi, in the seminar of Remembrance education, has written: "Conference guests included representative of paragovernmental and non-governmental institutions and associations, historical institutes, representatives of Holocaust museums and memorials, private associations committed to the themes of peace and cooperation. The effort of the hosts – the association Mostar Friedensprojekt – sponsored by EACEA and the Europe for Citizens’ Programme, was commendably focused on promoting the meeting and reciprocal knowledge of the most significant experiences about the memory of the crucial events relating to second world war and more specifically the Holocaust and the way this memory is kept alive in all EU nations".

Carolina Figini, in the Innovation and new media workshop, besides analysing the experiences of the European Websites devoted to Remembrance gathered some meaningful testimonies about the Righteous: "Kamile, who works at the Jewish State Museum in Vilna which also runs a Centre for tolerance, is the granddaughter to a man for whom there is an ongoing procedure of recognition of his quality as a "Righteous". Her forefather, a firm owner, under the direst straits also due to the extent of collaboration in the Baltic Countries, saved some Jewish employees from the Nazis. After the war another employee, always a Jew, was fired by him because she was unwilling to work and she took revenge by going to the Soviets and reporting him as a "capitalist". He spent 10 years in a Siberian gulag! I think figures like him are worth studying because they allow to shed light on the essence of totalitarianism. Kamile's grandfather himself probably realized it, because he used to say: “I helped some human beings, I was betrayed by a human being” refusing to discriminate Jews from others also when, instead of a distraught victim, he was confronted with a lazy at work and eager to betray person. Kamile has recently been involved in the organization of an exhibition about the rescuers of Jewish children during the Holocaust. She told us that for the occasion the hall of the museum was made more spacious as well as "labyrinthical", to emphasize the idea of complexity, by a special design. The Righteous were shown on shining boards representing the light in the darkness that they represented, and the rescued children on boards made of wood, a living material"

19 May 2011

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