Every year, the network of Italian Embassies and Institutes of Culture commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day, honoring all the victims of the Holocaust, the racial laws, and all military and political deportees to Nazi concentration camps.
On the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Antonio Tajani, sent a message to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and the importance of collective memory. At this link is the video message: Giornata della Memoria | Videomessaggio del Ministro Antonio Tajani – YouTube
The Italian Embassy in Dublin and the Italian Institute of Culture organised a commemorative event that focused in particular on the tragic events of the deportation of the Rome Ghetto in October 1943. In his introduction, preceded by a brief presentation of the programme by the Italian Institute’s director, Michela Linda Magrì, Ambassador Nicola Faganello recalled the need to remember the “unprecedented horrors of the Holocaust and to honor the memory of the victims, even more so now that the survivors are for the most part sadly missing.”
The audience listened to the testimony of Caryna Camerino, granddaughter of Enzo Camerino, one of the sixteen survivors of the raid of the Rome Ghetto and of internment in the Auschwitz concentration camp. During the evening, the documentary “The Raid– Rome, 16 October 1943” (2018, 60 min.), directed by Ruggero Gabbai, was screened, retracing the memories of witnesses to the raid. The commemoration was attended by representatives of the diplomatic corps accredited in Dublin, local authorities, academics and civil society, among others.
Press coverage of the event is available at the following links:
Giorno della Memoria all’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Dublino
