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 am Opening ceremony of the Sciesopoli Jewish Memorial Museum – 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…
(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 heart, chains penetrated into the flesh, screaming and devastating flames. 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 public. You can register through this link. Among the speakers 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 beaten against the blank windows that still tremble at the 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 2018. The film will be entitled:”Sciesopoli, children’s home“, produced by Read more…
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 Children’s House” by archivist Bernardino Pasinelli and thanks to the Read more…
Shmuel Milchman (1929-2016), one of the “Children of Selvino”, past to the death camps of Auschwitz–Birkenau, Mauthausen and Ebensee, then became typographer, passed away October 9, 2015. With her daughter Cheli Garty, he wrote a book in Hebrew on his life, long 86 years, Poland up in Israel. It is Read more…
Bobbi Maxman (Bronka Auerbach) died suddenly in New York July 7, 2016, at the age of 83 years. Bobbi was born in 1932 in Zalosce (Zalosza or Zaliztsi), a small town which was then in Poland. At the outbreak of World War II, Poland was divided and Zalosce became part 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…
The June 27, 2016 Yehudith is back in Selvino to visit the colony of Sciesopoli and of Opera Bergamasca in Piazzatorre, who had received and had given back a smile and a life expectancy. On this trip she were accompanied by Annalisa Govi and Matthias Durchfeld dell’Istoreco of Reggio Emilia. Read more…
At the Ateneo of Bergamo from 25 June to 3 July 2016 (in the historic headquarters of the Ateneo in Upper City – Square Cathedral (Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 to 19:00 and Tuesday to Friday 15:00 to 19:00 hours with free admission), it will be published the draft Lara Read more…
THURSDAY, June 23, 2016, SCIESOPOLI BETWEEN ART AND SCULPTURES It will be inaugurated on Thursday, June 23, 2016 the exhibition of paintings and sculptures of the Accademia Belle Arti Santa Giulia of Brescia with which the Municipality of Selvino has recently signed a three-year cooperation agreement. There will be the Read more…
Valeria Dani, PhD candidate in Romance Studies at Cornell University (NY), has been awarded a research grant promoted by the “Fondazione per i Beni Culturali Ebraici in Italia” (Foundation for the Jewish Cultural Heritage in Italy) in 2016. The project chosen by the Foundation is entitled “Trasformazione dello spazio e Read more…
On May 7, 2016 have been visiting Selvino and Sciesopoli a group of ten bikers on tour in the Bergamo valleys. The result was a Sky TV crew that does the “Slow Rider” program (Sky – automototv – Channel 148) seen by about 300,000 people who will know the history Read more…
Reuven Donath was a soldier of the Jewish Brigade and Eugenia Cohen was a young from Milan, who later took the Hebrew name of Noga. Both were instructors in Piazzatorre and then in Selvino, where they married and then together they went to Israel. From the book “Im Tirtzu Zo Read more…
Born in June 1930 as Ester Weiss , to Salomea ( Sala) and Jacob her parents. Had an older brother, Josef. Her childhood was relatively good. In 1941 Ester was sent to a summer camp in Zaleszczyki , close to the Rumanian border, which became part of the Ukraine as 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 caresses the loneliness of those old walls. Rain like tears has beaten against the blank windows that still tremble at the Read more…
Video of the International Children’s Selvino 25-28 September 2015. “Cargo of Hope” – The Journey with the Children of Selvino. Powered by Tami Sharon daughter of Leah Ben-Dov, former child of Sciesopoli. [Show slideshow]
INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF CHILDREN OF SELVINO 15 to 29 September 2015 – Tishrei 5776 2-16 THE LONG JOURNEY IN MEMORY Were 800 Jewish children who survived the Holocaust and the concentration and extermination camps. After 70 years back in Selvino and Sciesopoli, their home at the time, to find the Read more…
During the exhibition in Bergamo exhibition on “Sciesopoli Jewish, 1945-1948”, a couple of elderly people (whom we thank for this gift) gave us a beautiful picture-postcard, sent from Sciesopoli in Israel by Avraham and Yenti Spiegel, in January of 1947. On the back there is a writing in Yiddish, we Read more…
Letter of Bernat Rosner to Miriam Bisk and former pupils and friends of Selvino: Dear Miriam, Thank you (and those others concerned) for putting my story on the Sciesopoli website. I am very grateful for being able to participate in the reunion at least in this vicarious way. My brief Read more…
List of some former child Selvino and their business and profession in 1984 approximately.Based on the book by Aharon Megged dedicated to Sciesopoli.Adam Wechsler, who miraculously survived the experiments of Mengele at Auschwitz, has become a builder. Alex Czoban-Sarel, who wandered for years between villages and forests, has become an Read more…
INCONTRO INTERNAZIONALE DEI BAMBINI DI SELVINO 15 – 29 Settembre 2015 CONFERENZA STAMPA: 9 SETTEMBRE 2015, ORE 12 Casa Della Memoria Via Federico Confalonieri, 14, 20124 Milano MM 5 Isola – MM2 / FS Garibaldi Intervengono: Paolo Carrara, Marco Cavallarin, Filippo Del Corno, Enrico Grisanti, Roberto Jarach, Gadi Schoenheit. Da Read more…
Georges Loinger that during the Second World War he saved 500 Jewish children from deportation, celebrated her 105th birthday on Aug. 27, 2015. Card, Georges, up to 120 years! We must remember who is this man from the long live super active and so involved. Loinger Georges was born in Read more…
A Selvino began the disclosure process for the program of the International Children’s Selvino September 15 to 29 year 2015. Extraordinary sale of jewelry in Selvino to financial support of the same meeting. [qrcode] .
INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF CHILDREN OF SELVINO 15 to 29 September 2015 – Tishrei 5776 2-16 THE LONG JOURNEY IN MEMORY Were 800 Jewish children who survived the Holocaust and the concentration and extermination camps. After 70 years back in Selvino and Sciesopoli, their home at the time, to find the Read more…