San Donato Val di Comino celebrates the Holocaust Memorial Days from 15 to 29 January 2023. The main internment site for foreign Jews in Lazio will host public meetings, conferences, visits to the Museum of the 20th century and the Shoah, screenings and the inauguration of the Holocaust Memorial in remembrance of the Shoah.”
Programme
15 JANUARY 2023
- 17:00 - Via Orologio, 14 (Museum of the 20th Century and the Shoah)
Alessandro Cecchi Paone author of the book Liliana Segre meets the Museum
By the Leonardo Culture Centre
21 JANUARY 2023
- 15:30 - Via Orologio, 11 (Psyche and Aurora publisher)
Images and Memory: Children of the Shoah *
Two screenings recount the strength of the youngest against racial persecution:
– THE STAR OF ANDRA AND TATI
- JONA WHO LIVED IN THE WHALE - 16:30 - Viale G. Marconi (Municipal Theatre)
San Donato back of the Cassino front line
Delivery of the Liberation Route Europe “wall vector”.
A meeting with experts and witnesses who will recall the air mission that struck San Donato on 12 January 1944 and the various bombardments and raids to which the town was subjected from 5 November 1943 to 5 June 1944
22 JANUARY 2023
- 16:00 - Via Orologio, 14 (Museum of the 20th Century and the Shoah)
Voices at the Museum
Tales and testimonies related to the Shoah and the journey from San Donato to Auschwitz of the internees
27 JANUARY 2023
- 10:00 a.m. - Piazza G. Matteotti
Remembrance Day
Inauguration of the new square and the Shoah Memorial in the presence of guests, students and authorities
28 JANUARY 2023
- 15:30 - Via Orologio, 14 (Museum of the 20th Century and the Shoah)
When children escaped the bombs
Animated readings for children by Davide Fischanger
29 JANUARY 2023
- 17:00 - Via Orologio, 11 (Psyche and Aurora publisher)
Memories from Budapest: Giorgio Perlasca and Gabriella Kazar
A tea in the publishing house with the stories of Italians and Hungarians during the Shoah