Memory
The Memory of Memories
Editorial by Moni Ovadia, actor, playwright, writer and composer
As the recurrence that bears the name of “Holocaust Remembrance Day” approaches, I think every year it becomes more and more urgent to develop unconventional reflections about the deepest meaning that this national and European
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Gariwo event for Holocaust Remembrance Day 2015
“Adopt a Righteous” is the call launched by Gariwo, the forest of the Righteous for Holocaust Memorial Day 2015 through an event whose protagonists are the students of the Milanese and Lombard schools. Meeting “Adopting a Righteous”. A force for our future belongs to the teaching project of Gariwo to make young people aware of the values of solidarity, participation and personal responsibility.
Genocide prevention worth lifetime’s effort
Yehuda Bauer embraced the perspective of universalization of the concept of genocide, better defining it as "mass atrocities", and called for closer cooperation between politicians and scientists to prevent persecutions.
Who's on trial, Eichmann or Arendt?
The book Eichmann Before Jerusalem (Ed. Alfred A. Knopf) by Bettina Stangneth appear to challenge Arendt's thesis of the "banality of evil", but this should not lead to deny the value of Arendt's challenge to Western thought.
Remembering Moshe Bejski
Editorial by Marc-Henri Fermont, relative of Moshe Bejski
I am deeply moved today as I always am when I participate in Ceremonies in the Gardens of the Righteous in Milan, but participating in the inauguration of the Gardens of the Righteous here in Warsaw on the square
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The Garden of Warsaw
Editorial by Gabriele Nissim, Chairman of Gariwo, the forest of the Righteous
Entering a garden of the Righteous provides a great deal of emotional stimuli, the most immediate one being perhaps gratitude.
If Poland today, after a tragic history of vexations,
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Memory
Remember the past in order to build a future
The International Committee of the Armenian Righteous. Memory is the Future was founded by Piero Kuciukian in order to commemorate those who went against the genocide of 1915. The title emphasises the function of the memory, which is not a nostalgic look back in history, but a a clear sense of the past to build a future without making old mistakes.
The memory has many solutions and presents conflicting results, either positive or negative depending on how it is treated. Reflections on the previous events help us to understand the present, which means to search for the coordinates that allow us to interpret new situations with awareness of the dangers or opportunities that are triggered by certain mechanisms such as cultural, social and individual. The experience of the genocides of the twentieth century, the phenomenon of totalitarianism, resulted in the devastating world war, the balance of power during the Cold War, provide very precise indications on the geopolitical hegemony and humanitarian frifts to be avoided, while the example of the Righteous, their varied efforts on behalf of the persecuted, the demand for freedom, independence of thought and the instance of the defense of human dignity, are to be taken to avoid the pitfalls of arrogance, denial of truth, the rejection of diversity, closing the other, unilateral decision.
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Theatrical show based on Gabriele Nissim's books
Il Memorioso. Short guide to the memory of Good
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Carlo Bianchi
he dedicated his life helping those in need, saving the Sonnino-Shapira Jewish family from persecution