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Video of May 5-9, 2023
Conference of families of the Children of Selvino in tribute to the Italian people
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 daughter Michal in a remote online meeting about a year 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 entire family. He had been welcomed in Selvino in the 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 my door saying “you need to write a conference summary”, 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 their families return to Italy in Selvino (Bg) to pay 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 recovery. Anna was a small woman of big stature. Strong 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 the municipal councilor Virginia Magoni and by the film director 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 of the ” Children of Selvino” (Bergamo). Remotely connected, they 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 on “Sciesopoli”, an interview with Liliana Segre and some slides 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 siren sounded. For the first time without our father, 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 occasion of “Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Day”: “We had 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 a lecture by Naama Galil, a project coordinator in the 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 Sciesopoli for about three years, until they emigrated to Israel 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 registered in the list of the Selvino Children of 10 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 made his Aliya in Israel in 1947. He was buried 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 that her memory will be a blessing. Our dear mother 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 small town of Selvino, between Val Seriana and Val Brembana, 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 the Unrra (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) conserved to 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 to Selvino from Israel to see the places and the 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 in Selvino they found a family, a smile and hope 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 DANI >> The essay is part of the book: “DP 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 during his ten-year journey with cancer. Daniel was the son 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 ten minutes, directed by Fabio Toncelli, to the emblematic story 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 and her daughter, to the town hall of Selvino, where 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 born in April 1929 in the village of Lipscha, in 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 his brothers: Dov (born in 1931), Zvika (born in 1935, 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, in three months of preparation for the appointments of the 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 which we announced some shots of the film in Selvino: 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 probably a year-end prank. However, we thank Anna and Enrico 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 Aviv) who wrote the story of the Jewish children of 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 National Tourist Office. He was awarded for an article written 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) and Jewish Brigade. His mother Sara, who as a maiden 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 a social gathering, singing accompanied by a slideshow and personal 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, Roberto Jarach, the vice-Ambassador of Israel in Italy, Ofra Farhi, 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 war Olek was wandering through villages and forests escaping the 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 and the former alpine colony of Sciesopoli together with his 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 15 marzo 2017 Milano ore 10: Monte Stella, Cerimonia Gariwo Read more…
The song “On the road there is a tree” is Yiddish language and is titled: “Oyfn veg shteyt to Boym”. He tells of a mother who does not fly his baby on the tree of life to have it loaded with too many clothes. It was the favorite song of Read more…
In tribute and remembrance of Noga Donath Cohen, the friend and director Enrico Grisanti has prepared a nice video that gives us a lively and strong Noga, with a huge affection for “his Children of Selvino”, they always reciprocated. Noga is at Kibbutz Zeelim in Israel for the international meeting Read more…
Dear friends, With much sorrow I am relating to you this message, about the passing of Noga Donath. She was 95 years old and lived a full life, with extra ordinary experiences! She was a noble woman, loved her “Selvino children” as if they were hers! We all miss her Read more…
The entire Selvino family here in Israel, is very sorry to let you know about the Passing of Ayala Lieberman-Aviel, wife of Avraham Aviel, mother of Zipi, Dudi and Sarit, grandmother of their children. The funeral will take place tomorrow in Tel Aviv. Our heartfelt condolences go out to Read more…
In Milan, at the House of Memory in Via Federico Confalonieri, 14 MM 5 Isola, organized by Anpi Books and Unicopli. Presentation of the book by Anna Scandella: “Aliyah Bet – Sciesopoli: the return to life of 800 children who survived the Holocaust” published by Unicopli in 2017. The author Read more…
From March 31 to April 2, 2016, it took place the international meeting of the “Chldren of Selvino” in Kibbutz Zeelim, which they founded in 1948, in southern Israel’s Negev desert. We thank Tami Sharon for the nice video that she has created in memory of the meeting and the Read more…
Download the 2017 calendar of Children of Selvino and Sciesopoli as a wish for the new year Best wishes for a happy Christmas and Hanukkah and a better New Year, in serenity, wellness and health. But above all, we hope that there is peace in the whole world. We hope that Read more…
On November 2, 2016, the last day of his trip to Israel, President Sergio Mattarella visited the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv and the exhibition on emigration of Jews from Italy to Palestine, “In response to an Italian captain , Aliya Bet in Italy, 1945-1948” curated by Rachel Bonfil Read more…
Il 17 settembre 2016, Sidney Zoltak, uno dei “bambini di Selvino”, è tornato dal Canada, dove vive, in visita a Selvino per un incontro con l’Amministrazione Comunale, con il vice sindaco Paolo Carrara, i rappresentati del FAI della provincia di Bergamo, Walter Mazzoleni figlio del custode della Sciesopoli che trascorse Read more…
The italian RAI TV has dedicated some services to save Sciesopoli with “The Heart Places» with FAI (Italian Environment Fund). You can vote by clicking on this link: http://iluoghidelcuore.it We save Sciesopoli with “The places of the heart” of the FAI On italian TV Rai 1 in fine program “Travels Read more…
Save Sciesopoli with “The Heart Places» the FAI census which expires at the end of November 2016. You can vote at this link: http://iluoghidelcuore.it Rate this place! Share: FB | Twitter | G+ Report to a friend Add it to your map of Emotions Create a committee to support this Read more…
This was the topic of the holocaust memorial gathering held in Avshalom Institute on May 4, 2016. The event started with the audience standing up for one minute for the memory of the holocaust victims. Batyah Dvir, Historian of the Moreshet Institute gave a lecture “The Jewish kid – The Read more…
From March 31 to April 2, 2016, an international meeting of the Children of Selvino in Kibbutz Ze’elim, which they founded in 1948, in southern Israel’s Negev desert. [sz-youtube url=”https://youtu.be/tTDNJHbWjBw” /] THE MEETING OF SELVINO CHILDREN IN ZEELIM, April 2016 01- Moshe Aran 02- Israel Gurfinkel 03- Adek Eliyahu Goldman Read more…
Trailer of Miriam Bisk’s future documentary, that traces the journey of her parents, who fled from Poland after the war, in their attempt to reach the promised land. [sz-video url=”https://youtu.be/JIEtSLa56Cc?rel=0″ /] The petition for “the living memory of Jewish Sciesopoli “(1945-1948) was the turning point in summer of 2012, when Read more…
Il 18 settembre 2014, Sidney Zoltak, uno dei “bambini di Selvino”, che per due mesi circa fu ospite anche nel campo profughi di Cremona, da Montreal in Canada è venuto in visita alla Sciesopoli, accolto dall’assessore Simona Murero, da Marco Cavallarin e da Enrico Grisanti. Lo ringraziamo per la sua Read more…
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