Cultural Department of the Padua City Council
Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide Committee
Padua University
Federation Internationale des Droits de l'Homme
There is Always an Option to say 'Yes' or 'No'.
The Righteous Against the Genocides of Armenians and Jews
International Conference
30 November-1 December 2000
Padua University, Sala dei Giganti (Liviano)
Day 1, 30 November
Morning, 9:30am
Opening Address
Giovanni Marchesini Magnificent Rector of the University of Padua
Giustina Destro Mayor of Padua
Giuliano Pisani Councillor for Culture of the Padua City Council
Chairman
Siobhan Nash-Marshall St. Thomas University, Minneapolis
Opening Lecture
Gabriele Nissim Historian, Milan
The Universal Value of the Concept of the Righteous as regards 20th century Genocide
Antonia Arslan University of Padua
Aspects of the Righteous in Armenian Culture
Discussion
Afternoon, 3pm
Chairman
Marcello Flores University of Siena
Mordechai Paldiel President of the Department of the Righteous of Yad Vashem, Israel
Les critères d'èvaluation pour l'attribution du titre de Juste par la Commission de Yad Vashem
Lucien Lazare Historian, Member of the Department of the Righteous of Yad Vashem, Israel
La bonté humaine hors-la-loi face a' la barbarie légale
Coffee Break
Raymond Kévorkian Sorbonne University
Pour une tipologie des Justes dans l'Empire Ottoman face au génocides des Arméniens
Carla Tonini University of Bologna
The Exceptional Case of Zofia Kossak. The Polish 'Antisemite' who Saved the Jews
Discussion
Day 2, 1 December
Morning, 9:30am
Chairman
Francesco M. Cataluccio Essayist, Milan
Laura Boella University of Milan
Indomitable Hearts. The Passion and Deeds of those who Preserve their 'Humanity in Dark Times'
Nadia Neri Psychologist, analyst
Etty Hillesum: Extreme Compassion, the Exemplary Response of a Victim in the Face of Extreme Evil
Coffee Break
Testimony
Franco Perlasca
On the figure of his father Giorgio
Misha Wegner
On the figure of his father Armin Theophil
Istvàn Bibò and Judith Bibò
On the figure of their father and father-in-law Istvàn
Afternoon, 3pm
Chairman
Gabriele Nissim Historian, Milan - coordinator of the Organizing Committee
Yves Ternon Historian, Paris
La vérité refusée. Ëtude comparative de la négation de la Shoah et du génocide ármenien
Susan Zuccotti Essayist
The Clergy, the Vatican, and the Rescue of Jews in German-Occupied Italy
Coffee Break
Hilmar Kaiser Istituto Universitario Europeo, Fiesole
A Righteous for the Armenians. Beatrice Rohner
Boghos Levon Zekiyan University of Venice
Reflections on the Semantic Transposition of the Concept of the Righteous in the Context of the Armenian Metz Yeghèrn
Pietro Kuciukian Essayist, member of the Union of Armenians in Italy
The Plan to Set up an International Committee for the "Righteous for the Armenians"
Discussion
Cocktail in the Sala dei Giganti
Concert by Vladimir Ugorski at the Teatro Verdi
Day 3, 2 December
8:30am, Supercinema Theater, Via Emanuele Filiberto
Film Destinazione il nulla ('Destination Nowhere'): on the figure of a Righteous person for the Armenians.
Introduced by Carlo Massa
9.30am
Round Table "Analogies and Differences in the Concept of the Righteous in some 20th century Genocides and in Crimes Aagainst Humanity: the Armenian Genocide, the Shoah, the Gulags, Ethnic Cleansing in the former Yugoslavia
Chairman
Gianni Scalia University of Siena
With the participation of
Svetlana Broz (essayist, Sarajevo)
Victor Zaslavsky (LUISS, Rome)
Agopik Manoukian (sociologist, President of the Union of Armenians in Italy)
Closing Address
Gabriele Nissim Historian, Milan, coordinator of the Organizing Committee