Roma Capitale promotes a vast program of events on the occasion of Remembrance Day on 27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp, with “Memory Generates Future“.
From 23 to 31 January, around 60 events to remember the tragedy of the Shoah, i.e. the deportation and extermination of millions of Jews, and to remember the persecution, imprisonment and death in Nazi concentration camps of Sinti and Roma, homosexuals, Witnesses Jehovah, military and anti-fascist and anti-Nazi political opponents from all over Europe.
An extensive program of events – exhibitions, meetings, guided tours, book presentations, events for schools, concerts, shows and film screenings and in-depth studies – which will take place in various spaces of the city, in collaboration with city institutions and with national and Roman.
Among the many events, the public will be able to reflect on one of the most painful pages in the history of Rome with the exhibition THE WORDS OF HATE. The Roman Jews sold to the Nazis, housed in the headquarters of the Shoah Museum Foundation. At the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, however, Ascanio Celestini will give voice to memory with the reading show Stories of people.
For the program click HERE