On March 6, 2020, a private ceremony was held at the Garden of the Righteous Worldwide of Milan for the Day of the Righteous of the humanity with the representatives of the Association for the Garden of the Righteous of Milan (Municipality of Milan, Gariwo, UCEI): Lamberto Bertolé, president of the Milan City Council, Gabriele Nissim, president of Gariwo, Giorgio Mortara, vice president of UCEI (Union of the Italian Jewish Communities). The speeches of the three representatives were also an opportunity to tell the new honuored figures at the Monte Stella Garden - Piero Martinetti, the women of Rosenstrasse, Wallace Broecker, Valerij Legasov, Yusra Mardini, Hevrin Khalaf - to whom a plaque has been dedicated, and the new Righteous at the Monte Stella Virtual Garden.
Symbolic ceremony at the Garden of the Righteous in Milan
in honour of the new Righteous at Monte Stella Garden
6 March 2020
3.2.2017
The Garden of Human Rights in Diano San Pietro
3.10.2019
Lampedusa, six years after the 3 October 2013
17.3.2017
Garden of the correctional facility of Monza
6.3.2014
Garden of Mantua
Further insights in Gariwo
- Piero Martinetti [biography]
- founder of the Philosophical School of Milan, he was the only philosopher among university professors to refuse to take the oath to the fascist regime in 1931
- The Women of Rosenstrasse [biography]
- they saved 2.000 Jews with a bold protest on Berlin's Rosenstrasse
- Wallace Broecker [biography]
- pioneer of the fight against climate change
- Valerij Legasov [biography]
- the man who managed to mitigate the consequences of Chernobyl
- Hevrin Khalaf [biography]
- activist for the peaceful coexistence between Kurds, Syriac Christians and Arabs
- Yusra Mardini [biography]
- a young swimmer for refugee rights