Helena Savoldelli

Gariwo Editorial Staff

Articles

Conversation with Piotr M.A. Cywinski

31 May 2023

The director of Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum Piotr M.A. Cywiński told us about the responsibility he feels in running such an important place (“not sacred but of death”, as Wlodek Goldkorn defined it), where over a million men, women and children lost their lives. He mainly spoke of visits to Auschwitz as “the awakening of moral restlessness that has no meaning unless it is a ritual of passage”, through which the life of those who pass through that gate as ‘tourists’ cannot remain the same.

I wanted to be the voice of my people, of Afghan women and children: yes I took the risk

28 October 2021

Rahel Saya is an Afghan activist and journalist who fled Afghanistan thanks to an international rescue operation. She criticized the Talibans especially for their behaviour regarding women and children rights and she suffered great risks for that. Since we know that the voice of a reporter is the voice of the people of the society, I wanted to be the voice of my people, especially the voice of Afghan women and children and tell the truth to everyone. Yes I took the risk, but because I loved my job and activities, I never gave up and I will never give up.

26 years since the genocide of Srebrenica

1 July 2021

On July 11, 1995, General Mladic's troops entered the town of Srebrenica and killed 8372 Muslim men and boys, later throwing them into mass graves. Twenty-six years later, Ratko Mladic has been sentenced to life imprisonment, the Mothers of Srebrenica are still looking for the truth, and a journalist, Kim Willsher, wanted to remember a woman who became a symbol of all that evil, Ferida Osmanovic, known as "The Hanging Woman".

From Vichy to Rwanda, France reconsiders its past

16 April 2021

The 27th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide was marked by the release of a report called La France, le Rwanda et le génocide des Tutsi (1990-1994), commissioned by President Emmanuel Macron in 2019 and presented on March 26, 2021. The report, which was put together by a cluster of French historians, prompted soul-searching about France’s responsibilities in having turned a blind eye to genocide preparations.