What is “Day of Remembrance”? January 27, 1945 marked the demolition of the gates of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Thus, 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. “
Dawn on October 16, 1943, during the German occupation of Rome, more than 1,000 people including men, women and children of the Jewish religion were arrested in their homes.
Two days later, they were deported through sealed trains in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The largest haul of Jews organized on Italian soil, only 16 were able to return home. Enzo Camerino was one among these who, in 1957, decided to leave everything and moved with his wife here in Montreal.
On the occasion of the “Day of Remembrance 2017“, the Italian Cultural Institute is organizing an encounter with Camerino’s children, Julia and Italo, who will speak about their Father’s experience as he lived it. In this regard, some footage will also be screened containing interviews in recent years by Enzo Camerino.
Speakers Julia Camerino, Italo Camerino e Damiano Garofalo. The encounter will be introduced by Damiano Garofolo (University of Rome “La Sapienza”), which will provide a unique point of view on the memory and the representation of those tragic events in the postwar Italian culture.
Wednesday January 25th 2017, 6:30pm
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
1200, Dr. Penfield
The conference will be held in Italian
Damiano Garofalo is a scholar of Italian television. He received his Ph.D. in “Cultural History” at the University of Padova. He is currently Adjunct Professor in “Television Studies” at the University of Padova (DAMS) and in “Italian Cinema History” at Sapienza University in Rome, where he is also Teaching Assistant in “Film & Media Studies”. He has co-edited with Vanessa Roghi the book “Televisione: Storia, Immaginario, Memoria” [Television: History, Imagination, and Memory] (Cosenza, 2015), a groundbreaking work about Italian television audiences. His most recent publication is the book on “Political Audiences: A Reception History of Early Italian Television” (Milano, 2016). His work is particularly noteworthy and exciting insofar as it relies on rare and difficult to access archival material. Trained in the Italian academy, Garofalo possesses the robust understanding of Italian cultural, social and political history necessary to grasp the full significance of such material.
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