What is “Day of Remembrance“? January 27, 1945 marked the demolition of the gates of the Auschwitz concentration camp. This, as stated in Article 1 of the Law of July 20th 2000, n. 211, “The Italian Republic recognizes the 27th day of January, date of the gates of Auschwitz,” Day of Remembrance “in order to remember the Holocaust (extermination of the Jewish people), the racial laws, the persecution of Italian Jewish citizens , Italians who suffered deportation, imprisonment, death, and those who, even in different fields and camps, have opposed the project of extermination, and risked their lives to save more lives as well as protected the persecuted.”
On the occasion of the “Day of Remembrance 2018“, the Italian Cultural Institute is organizing a conference: The Album Primo Levi: a rich unexpected discovery meeting with the witness of Auschwitz, the writer and the man of science, by Fabio Levi. The knowledge and perception of the great writer from Turin have changed and enriched over the years. The Album, just published by Einaudi, presents with great wealth of images and quotations the many dimensions of his work matured and intertwined with each other in the course of a lifetime: the testimony about the Lager, the work of a translator and linguist writer, the experience of chemist and man of science, the story of the intellectual engaged in constant dialogue with the youngest, Il volume, realized by Roberta Mori and Domenico Scarpa, is the point of the most recent arrival of the work conducted by the Center of Studies Internazionale Primo Levi in Turin.
Tuesday January 30, 2018, 6pm
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
1200, Dr. Penfield
The conference will be held in Italian
Fabio Levi is Professor of Contemporary History at the Department of Historical Studies of the University of Turin and has been Director of the International Center for Early Levi Studies since 2008. He studied for many years the story of Jewish persecution in Italy, publishing several books on the subject. Among others L’ebreo in oggetto. L’applicazione della normativa antiebraica a Torino 1938-1943 (1991); L’identità imposta. Un padre ebreo di fronte alle leggi razziali di Mussolini (1996); Le case e le cose. La persecuzione degli ebrei torinesi nella carte dell’EGELI. 1938-1945 (1998); Le risposte a un questionario proposto presso la Facoltà di Lettere di Torino (1999); Dodici lezioni sugli ebrei in Europa. Dall’emancipazione alle soglie dello sterminio (2003); Auschwitz, il presente e il possibile. Dialoghi sulla storia tra infanzia e adolescenza, (with Maria Bacchi) (2004); La persecuzione antiebraica dal fascismo al dopoguerra (2009). Among his publications relating in particular to the most recent Italian history, it is worth remembering Traveling with Alex. La vita e gli incontri di Alexander Langer (2007).
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