The program of events organized in Naples for the 2014 Memorial Day, from outdoor cinema to ceremonies in universities and schools
Like every year, even in this 2014 we are preparing to celebrate the Holocaust Memorial Day, which occurs on January 27th and which provides for the organization of events throughout Italy.
As we all know, this important day has been established, internationally, to remember the victims of Nazism, the Holocaust and all those who have been persecuted in the name of these unhealthy principles.
Also Napoli, thanks to the collaboration between the Municipality, the Jewish Community and the Goethe Institut, it will host numerous events with the aim of remembering, therefore, "la Shoah, the racial laws, the Italian persecution of Jewish citizens, the Italians who have suffered deportation, imprisonment, death, as well as those who, even in different camps and camps, have opposed the extermination project and at the risk of their own lives have saved other lives and protected the persecuted ”.
The 27 January day was not chosen by chance: on that date, in the 1945, the Soviet troops entered Auschwitz discovering the terrible reality and the horrible life of all the deportees imprisoned there and freeing the survivors from that destiny.
The program of events that will be held in Naples for the Day of Memory is packed and will involve several days; here it is.
Schedule events in Naples for the 2014 Memorial Day
23 January
Initiatives promoted by the Valenzi Foundation
A meeting will be held at the Castel Nuovo headquarters on the theme "Maurizio Valenzi, a Jew between the two shores of the Mediterranean" which will be attended by Aldo Masullo, Nico Pirozzi and Lucia Valenzi. The document-interview by Nico Pirozzi with Maurizio Valenzi will also be screened.
Working hours:: 10.00
26 January
A path without shelter
The Friends of the City of Science Association & the EIP Italia School Instrument of Peace Association, at the “Silvia Ruotolo” Council Room in Via Morghen 84, organize the event “A walk without shelter”. It will be a meeting that will see the participation of the vice president of Municipality 5, an introduction with Jewish music and interventions, including poetry readings, by various guests such as Angela Yoel Amato, Tullio Foà, Clotilde Punzo and Alessandro Yosef Amato.
Schedule: 10.00
27 January
Open-air cinema in Piazza del Plebiscito (in case of rain, the venue will be the Galleria Umberto)
On the occasion of the Day of Remembrance, a 60sqm screen will be mounted in Piazza del Plebiscito and 700 seats will be set up for the organization of an outdoor cinema. The film screened will be the moving “Train de vie”, but the evening's program also includes the performance of artists, readings and music.
To know in detail the times and the schedule of the event, read our dedicated article.
Ceremony in memory of Sergio De Simone
The "Sergio De Simone" Kindergarten and the "Fava-Gioia" ICS in via Appulo commemorate Sergio De Simone, a Neapolitan Jewish child who was the victim of "medical" experiments in a Nazi camp and will do so by planting roses in the schoolyard. The mayor Luigi de Magistris, the Councilor for Culture Nino Daniele, the Councilor for the School Annamaria Palmieri and a representative of the Jewish Community of Naples will participate.
Schedule: 9.30
Conference on Totalitarianism and Negationism
The Interuniversity Center for Bioethics Research, of the Department of Law of the University of Naples "Federico II" with the collaboration of the Permanent Ethics Committee for Biomedical Activities "Carlo Romano" and the Permanent Seminar of the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Naples "Federico II" organizes a conference on the themes of totalitarianism and denial:
- 09.30 hours at the Aula Pessina of the Department of LawInterventi, lectio magistralis by Francesco Paolo Casavola, musical range, testimony by Paul Schreiner
- 15.30 hours at Cinema Astra: round table on “Denialism, the figure of evil”.
28 January
Goethe Institute
The German language and culture institute will organize, at the Cinema Astra in Via Mezzocannone, the screening of the documentary by Britta Wauer "Gerdas Schweigen (the silence of Gerda)" as part of the 8th Cineforum of original language films organized by University Linguistic Center of the University of Naples Federico II.
Schedule: 18.00
Recall, finally, that the Cinema Pierrot in via De Meis, in Ponticelli, organizes, by dell'Arci Movie, a series of film screenings that will go on until the end of January. These will remember the Shoah and the extermination of the Jews during the Second World War and also some projections will be directed to schools. The film will be screened Adam resurrected (2009) for high schools Lifestyle (1999) for middle schools.
Each screening will see the presence of guests and witnesses.
