On 7th March 2016, the Comprehensive Institute B. Lanino has inaugurated the Garden of the Righteous of Vercelli, planting three trees in honour of the Righteous of Nonantola, who gave shelter to several Jewish during the Holocaust; of Lassana Bathily, Malian muslim who saved the lives of six Jewish customers in the kosher supermarket that were taken hostage by Amedy Coulibaly during the terrorist attacks of 9th January 2015 in Paris; and of the citizens of Lampedusa, witnesses of the migration flows in the mediterranean.
Vercelli - C. I. Lanino
Vercelli - C. I. Lanino
7 March 2016
Figures honoured in this Garden
- Righteous teachers of the Shoah
- Lassana Bathily
- the young boy from Mali who saved the Jews during the attack against the kosher supermarket
- Pope Francis [biography on external website]
- Guardian of the Humanity
- Faraaz Hussein
- the young man who in Dhaka sacrificed himself in order not to desert his friends
- Citizens of Lampedusa [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous]
- Witnesses of the tragic effects of the migration flows in the Mediterranean
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- The Righteous of Nonantola
- Nonantola citizens protected 73 young and 13 adults Israelites who had found a safe heaven in Villa Emma
- Janusz Korczak
- Educator, he followed the Jewish children into the Warsaw Ghetto and in deportation