The children of Selvino participate in the mourning for the passing of Diego Bertocchi, which occurred on 17 October 2023. They offer their condolences to the family, friends and citizens of Selvino. Diego was mayor of Selvino from 2014 to Read more…
Conference of families of the Children of Selvino in tribute to the Italian people
This week the family of “I Bambini di Selvino” lost one of ours: Yael Golan-Shwartzblat Zal died in Australia. The Selvino Children’s Association planted a tree in memory of Yael Golan in the Jerusalem forest. We “met” her and her Read more…
On Monday, June 12, 2023, Ruben Richmann, one of the Children of Selvino, died in Montreal. He was born in 1932 in a small Polish town, today Belarus, 100 km from Vilnius. He was the only Holocaust survivor of his Read more…
The song of the virtues in our return to Selvino “ we were like dreamers”… then the weariness of our mouths and our tongues were filled with songs… A week ago, upon my return home, Tami kept on knocking on Read more…
The orphans of the Shoah, the “Children of Selvino” return to Selvino (Bg) to honor the place where they were reborn to life. Between 5 and 9 May 2023, some of the approximately 800 children who survived the Shoah and Read more…
Sad. The community of the Children Of Selvino bows its head with the untimely passing of our friend in Milan/Selvino. Anna Sternfeld, wife of Enrico Grisanti passed away on February 15, 2023, after fighting with courage and hope for her Read more…
On 27 January 2023 in Selvino from 10 am to the whole morning at the MuMeSE museum, the photographic exhibition «The memory of Jewish Sciesopoli – The return to life» was set up and open to the public, curated by Read more…
Saturday 21 January 2023 in Trapani, during the “Mifgash” event, organized by Chiara Camarda, in which conferences and meetings are held followed by moments of dialogue and aggregation, concerts, shows and film screenings, a meeting was held on the history Read more…
In the last two weeks of January 2023, the Maria Consolatrice Institute of Calusco D’Adda (Bg) hosted the “Sciesopoli” exhibition through the Sons of the Shoah association. We met about a hundred lower secondary school students, screened Enrico Grisanti’s documentary Read more…
The “Casa della Memoria di Brescia“, which has always been committed to safeguarding memory to bear witness to the Shoah, has set up an exhibition with the stories of Jewish children who were victims of Nazi persecution, entitled “Stars without Read more…
Message from the sons of David Herman, who passed away on April 14, 2022. Thursday, April 28, 2022, Holocaust “Martyrs and Heroes” Memorial Day. The memorial candle is still lit🕯️ Today we stood in silence for 2 minutes as the Read more…
Hannah Eden was born in Plinycha, Poland, in July 1933. Her name was Annia Shlenkovitz. Her parents where Peretz and Zviya Shlenkovitz, and she has a five-year-older brother named Moshe. From testimony that Hannah gave to her grandchildren on the Read more…
On October 13, 2021, a meeting of the children of Selvino and future generations was held in Yad Vashem. The program included a guided tour of the “Flashes of Memory“ exhibition, a memorial service at the synagogue, excerpts, singing and Read more…
On Friday, June 18, 2021, Dov Pelts, one of the Children of Selvino, died in Nahariya. He was born in Tomaschov in Poland in 1931. Dov together with his brothers, Yitzhak, Zvi and Yossi and their sister Rivka, remained in Read more…
We are moved and saddened by the death of Hanna Gurfinkel Cerrone, a little girl from Selvino. The brothers Gurfinkel Israel (born in 1935) and Chana or Hanna (born in 1933), both born in Warsaw to Abraham and Chesia, are Read more…
“The indifference is more guilty than violence itself. It is the moral apathy of those who turn away. It happens even today towards all the horrors of the world. And memory is the only vaccine against indifference” (Liliana Segre). On Read more…
ITALIAN NATIONAL COMPETITION: “YOUNG PEOPLE REMEMBER THE SHOAH” school year 2020/2021 The contest “Young people remember the Shoah“, now in its nineteenth edition, saw the participation of thousands of Italian students, who, despite the difficulties related to the Covid-19 pandemic, Read more…
“A refuge near the sky” by Aurora Cantini, tells the true story of five Jewish families and their children, all hidden from 1943 to 1945 in some houses in the small village of Ama, on the Selvino and Aviatico Plateau Read more…
Best wishes to Senator Liliana Segre on her 90th birthday from ANED – National Association of ex-deportees to Nazi camps which produced a special video to express her deep gratitude for her testimony. The friends of the Children of Selvino Read more…
On July 28, 2020, Avraham Itzhak (called Izio) Shichore, a Child from Selvino, died. He was 90 years old. He was the son of Shlomo and Minna, born in Poland on February 12, 1930, husband of Naomi Plug-Shichore. He had Read more…
We participate in the pain of the family, children and grandchildren and share the commitment to preserve the memory of the Children of Selvino. Yossi, Sarah Spiegel’s son sent us some photos and a short text in her memory, so Read more…
Dear friends of Selvino, In this difficult time for Italy but also for Israel, the Children of Selvino cannot and do not want to forget the place that hosted them after the Shoah and above all the inhabitants of the Read more…
The exhibition is available for exhibitions in schools, libraries and cultural centers. Writing for contacts and requests to: info[@]sciesopoli.com ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″] Exhibition “Jewish Sciesopoli” in Bergamo, 15-22 September 2015
Sunday 27 October 2019 the Municipality of Selvino inaugurates the “Jewish Sciesopoli Memorial Museum – Children’s home of Selvino“ Opening program 10.00 am Meeting in the Conference Hall of the Municipality of Selvino 10.15 am Greeting from the authorities 11.45 Read more…
On October 18, 2019, the family of Rivka Krol, a little girl from Selvino, came from Israel to visit Selvino. The name of Rivka Krol, born in Lublin (Poland) in 1929, is found among the cards of the assisted from Read more…
On 26 September 2019, visit to Selvino of Moshe Zeiri’s son, who in 1945-48 was the director at Sciesopoli, the former fascist colony became the “Casa dei Bambini di Selvino” Holocaust survivors. With his family and grandchildren, Avner Zeiri came Read more…
With great sorrow we learned of the death on September 22, 2019 of Milton Hostick, a Child of Selvino, who participated in the international meeting in September 2015 in Selvino. Unfortunately the witnesses who survived the Shoah are leaving, and Read more…
Happy birthday to Liliana Segre, born in Milan on 10 September 1930, a survivor of the Holocaust and a tireless witness to the tragedy of the Holocaust and the horror of Nazi-fascism. At 13 she was deported to Auschwitz, she Read more…
Report of some meetings for the “Memorial Day 2019”. These are key moments to remember the tragedy of the Holocaust and to make known the stories of salvation of the Children of Selvino who survived the extermination and the reconstruction Read more…
By courtesy of the author and the publisher, we are posting an essay by Valeria Dani dedicated to the recovery of Sciesopoli’s memory: The Fascist Colony of Sciesopoli: Transformation and Abandonment: >> READ EBOOK OF THE COMPLETE TEST BY VALERIA Read more…
With deep sadness we share the news of the sudden death of Daniel Gorini at Massachusetts General Hospital on Friday 28 of June 2019, due to complications related to cancer. Radhika his wife was at his side as she did Read more…
The story of the Children’s House of Selvino told by Fabio Toncelli. The episode of 28-06-2019 of “La Grande Storia” on Italian TV Rai3 entitled “Nazism, horror and hope”, with the collaboration of Paolo Mieli, dedicated a documentary of about Read more…
On June 18, 2019, Orly Ardon, daughter of Itamar (Deutsch) Doron, a child of Selvino, and granddaughter of two instructors in the institute visited Sciesopoli. At nine in the morning Enrico Grisanti accompanied the family of Orly Ardon, with husband Read more…
With great sorrow I inform you of the passing of Yehuda Shmuelli on Friday May 31st. We hereby send our condolences to the family. The funeral will take place on Sunday, June 2 at Kibbutz Rosh Hanikra. Yehuda Shmuelli was Read more…
Visit to Selvino by Haim Pelts, with some friends, on November 8, 2018. In memory of Father Yitzhak Pelts (or Pelz, born in 1933), a Child from Selvino, welcomed, cared for and formed for new life in Israel, together with Read more…
The primary and secondary schools of Bosisio Parini (Lecco) prepared for many months the Day of the Shoah 2019, with the help of their teachers and in particular of Prof. Sara Riva, who sent us this message: “With our children, Read more…
Francesca Muci’s new film, La casa dei bambini, was produced by Francesco Gesualdi for Camelot 2014 and Istituto Luce Cinecittà, which distributes it in theaters. See link to “News Cinecittà”. We have already talked about it in a post in Read more…
The plaque of the Children of Selvino has been found at the beginning of March 2019. It had been stolen from Vulcano Park in the days between the end of 2018 and the beginning of the new year. It was Read more…
To read the e-book of Aharon Megged’s book in Italian on Selvino’s Children, we ask you to send us an email to: info@sciesopoli.com http://youtu.be/EAvwvaS0Hys Interview with Aharon Megged (born August 10, 1920 in Poland and died March 23, 2016 in Tel Read more…
(The survivors of Binario 21, Milan) That pain in the background is still within us, rooted like a felled tree, shattered like a wreck adrift, immense as the sea of silence. It is a pain of splinters stuck in the Read more…
An award to the journalist Matteo Fontana who told the story of the journey of the “cyclist of memory”. In Milan Thursday, October 25, 2018, Matteo Fontana, journalist from Varesenoi.it received the Israel Press Award 2018 awarded by the Israeli Read more…
The Israeli Association for the Study of Family Roots holds a seminar on the subject of children seeking their identity. The seminar is scheduled for November 27, 2018 in Givatayim, Tel Aviv: https://goo.gl/maps/6EDVy9aKw2y The conference is open to the general Read more…
ANNIVERSARIO OF “SCIESOPOLI” (1945 – 2015) Days have passed, and years too, much snow has fallen on the paths of the immense park, and a thousand autumn leaves have caressed the loneliness of those old walls. Rain like tears has Read more…
In the column “Wikiradio” of September 20, 2018 of Radio Rai 3, the story of Bruno Maida “I bambini della colonia di Sciesopoli” (“The Children of the Colony of Sciesopoli”) was told. On September 21, 1945, Lieutenant Colonel H.G. Hershenson, Read more…
Wednesday, July 25 and Tuesday, August 7, 2018, the Municipal Administration of Selvino, in collaboration with the association Oter, proposed two meetings in the Library on the history of the colony of Sciesopoli, led by Aurora Cantini and Enrico Grisanti. Read more…
Sciesopoli: it seems like the name of a fantastic and imaginary city. Instead, it is the name of a great alpine colony, founded by the leaders of Milanese fascism and inaugurated on 11 June 1933 in Selvino. The name derives Read more…
He was only 10 years old when, in the autumn of 1946, Hersch Pelz arrived in Selvin from Poland with his brothers Dov, Yizhak, Josef and his sister Rifka. They were helped by the Joint (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) Read more…
On May 16, 2018, at the Palmach Museum in Tel Aviv, an event was held for the Children of Selvino and their families, in honor of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the State of Israel. The program included Read more…
To visit at the Memorial of the Shoah in Milan (Binary 21) the exhibition “Ships of Hope” Aliya Bet from Italy, 1945-1948, open until June 28, 2018. The exhibition was inaugurated in the presence of the vice-president of the Memorial, Read more…
On January 10th 2018 Olek Sarel, known in Selvino as Alexander Czoban, passed away after a long illness. Olek Sarel was born in 1929 in Lvov (Poland), son of Abraham Alfred Czoban and Henryka Czoban, brother of Aviva. During the Read more…
Miriam Bisk, President of Amuttah “Children of Selvino”, talks about her parents, Salek Najman and Lola Popinska, who were Polish Jews, sole survivors of the Holocaust and refugees in Several detention camps and interned in the British camps in Cyprus. Read more…
The orphans of the Shoah and the birth of Israel. The book is out in January 2018, Einaudi Storia, pp. XIV – 394, € 32 – eBook € 10,99. Sergio Luzzatto recounts here the adventure of a surprising number of Read more…
The children of the “Children of Selvin” returned to Selvino: the sisters Naama and Tami, daughters of Leah Ben-Dov Spivak – and Avi Shilo, son of Shmulik Shilo, who came from Israel to make the film that RAI will broadcast Read more…
Selvino welcomes the children of the Jewish refugees in 1945-1948: Naama and Tami sisters, daughters of Leah Ben-Dov Spivak, and Avi Shilo, son of Shmulik Shilo, arrived from Israel for filming the film to be broadcast by RAI in January Read more…
Visit of Avraham Aviel in Selvino on 16 April 2016 with his wife Ayala and daughters Zipi and Sarit – April 2016 Documentary made by the
The municipal administration of Selvino in collaboration with the Association “Oter” promotes at the Municipal Library “Discovering Sciesopoli” From 10:00 am Every Tuesday of July 4, 11, 18, 25 And August 1, 8, 17, 22, 29 exhibition “Sciesopoli, the Jewish Read more…
Arie Reich – a Professor from Bar Ilan University in Israel who is an expert in international trade law and European Union law – is the son of Yoel (Julek) Reich, a “Child of Selvino”. On 7 June 2017 he visited Selvino Read more…
On March 27, 2017, Yitzhak Livnat, who was called Suti Weisz, a generous and combative Child of Selvin, who was a sensitive and poetical soul, who had just reached 87 years, was missing. He was born in 1930 in Nagyszolos, Read more…
Sciesopoli – la Casa dei Bambini di Selvino (1945-1948) Giro in bicicletta di Giovani Bloisi (Tel. +39 328.141 6574) Da Varano Borghi (Varese) a Yad Vashem (Israele) Marzo-Aprile 2017 CALENDARIO TAPPE 13 marzo 2017 Tradate ore 11: Conferenza stampa Read more…