Giovanna Grenga

Garden of the Righteous in Rome

Articles

“I am a genocide scholar. I know it when i see it”

18 July 2025

On 15th July, a long article/essay by historian Omer Bartov, Professor of Holocaust studies and genocide at Brown University, appeared in the New York Times. In particular, throughout the decades, the Israeli academic historian has studied the involvement of the Wehrmacht in the genocide perpetrated by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Bartov has demonstrated that the Wehrmacht was in every way a profoundly Nazi institution that played a key role during the Holocaust in the occupied areas of the Soviet Union. The German army was therefore not an apolitical force with little involvement in war crimes or crimes against humanity during the Second World War.

Gariwo launches an appeal to have a female referee in the Italy-Turkey match

23 April 2021

Gariwo launches an appeal to women and men in sport, sportspeople, and citizens to ask UEFA that a team of female referees referee the opening match of the European Championships.The match will be played only a few weeks after Erdoğan issued a decree (on March 20, 2021) annulling Turkey’s ratification of the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, also known as the Istanbul Convention. On March 12, 2012, Turkey was the first country to ratify the Convention.