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An afternoon of film and interviews dedicated to the participation of Italian Jews in anti-Fascist movements and the resistance. A panel of scholars and public intellectuals will shed light on the early opposition to Mussolini's Regime and the exodus to France of many political dissenters.

The discussion will also focus on the activity of Giustizia e Libert�, whose founders, the Rosselli brothers, were murdered in 1937. The hit was ordered by the Italian secret police and executed by the French Cagoule, an extremist right-wing underworld group. Finally, the panel will examine the role of various organizations, including Delasem, the Italian Jewish relief organization, the Committee of National Liberation of Nothern Italy, a partisan group that rose against the Germans and created the Republic of Ossola, the only independent front in Northern Italy before 1945, and the Jewish Brigade in Italy.

Welcome and introductions

Consul General of Italy Francesco M. Tal� and President of RAI Paolo Garimberti.

Guests include

Liliana Picciotto, Anna Bravo, Alberto Rosselli, Davide Rodogno, Paolo Bologna, Guri Schwarz, Gianfranco Moscati, Miriam Mafai, Michele Battini, Anna Foa and Emanuele Fiano.

Film Screening, The Rosselli Case

directed by Stella Savino, narrated by Alberto Rosselli and produced by Rai and DocLab and Fox Channels Italy (Italian w/English subtitles).

Anna Pizzuti's website and book dispel myths and reconstruct life stories of foreign Jews in Italy during World War II.  

In the landscape of contemporary literature on the Shoah in Italy, Anna Pizzuti's Vite di carta. Storie di ebrei stranieri internati dal fascismo, Donzelli 2009, Rome, is an apparently small book that packs a big punch. 

On January 27 between 9:00 am and 4:00 pm in front of the Consulate General of Italy at 688 Park Avenue (68th Street) we will read the names of the Jews deported from Italy and the former Italian territories.

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January 21 at 9:30 am

Scuola d'Italia Guglielmo Marconi, 406 East 67th Street

Muted Voices: Testimonies of the Italian Shoah

Students from La Scuola d'Italia will join actors Robert Zukerman and Antoinette La Vecchia in reading the selection of memories curated by Stella Levi (Centro Primo Levi) based on Il Libro della Shoah in Italia edited by Marcello Pezzetti. Musical improvisations by Steve Elson. 

Followed by a conversation on tolerance with Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe and Rabbi Arthur Schneier. Moderator: Maurizio Molinari (US correspondent, La Stampa)

The program is open to students and teachers of New York City public and private schools. For information contact La Scuola d'Italia at (212) 369-3290.  

January 27 | 6:00 pm

NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marim�, 24 West 12th Street

Memory and/of Italian Colonialism:  

Zapruder's publication of Brava Gente

On the occasion of the International Day of Memory 2010 Casa Italiana has chosen to focus on the past most willingly forgotten by Italians: Italian colonialism.

Prof. Ruth Ben Ghiat will moderate a panel featuring Prof. Teresa Fiore and Claudio Fogu in conversation with Elena Petricola and Andrea Tappi, co-curators of Brava gente, a special issue of the journal Zapruder.

February 1 | 5:30 pm

Italian Academy at Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Av. 

Racially Inferior:  

Roma, Sinti and other Holocaust Victims

Along with the six million Jews who paid the highest price in the concentration camps, other minority groups were targeted by racism and xenophobia of the Nazi and Fascist regimes. The Roma and Sinti (known as Gypsies), too, were judged to be "racially inferior," and they suffered a fate not dissimilar to that of the Jews. This year, the Italian Academy's Holocaust Remembrance event broadens the focus to look at the plight of this other "racially inferior" group in German-occupied Europe of the 1940s, and in present-day Europe.