On January 27, 2025, on the occasion of Memorial Day, the Consulate General of Italy in New York hosted the traditional ceremony of the public reading on Park Avenue of the names of some 10,000 Jews deported from Italy and Italian territories.
Consul General, Fabrizio Di Michele, on the sidelines of the commemoration, recalled the importance of Law No. 211 of 2000, which established Holocaust Remembrance Day as a tool for reflection and education on the historical responsibilities of Fascist Italy in the persecution of the Jews. She also stressed the imperative, more relevant than ever 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, to counter all forms of Holocaust denialism, trivialization or instrumentalization.
The lengthy ceremony was attended by official representatives of the City and State of New York, members of the diplomatic-consular community, the Jewish world, the Italian and Italian-American community, as well as students from the Scuola d’Italia and several Jewish schools. Participants included several family members of Holocaust victims and Stella Levi, a survivor of Auschwitz, who at 101 years old did not want to miss the event.
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The commemoration was the culmination of a rich program of initiatives dedicated to the Day of Remembrance, carried out in collaboration with: the Primo Levi Center, the Italian Cultural Institute, Casa Italiana of New York University, the Italian Academy at Columbia University, the Calandra Institute at the City University of New York, Magazzino Italian Art, and La Scuola d’Italia Guglielmo Marconi.
The full program can be viewed at the following link: https://primolevicenter.org/
For more information about the event: marta.mammana@esteri.
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