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…
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…
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 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…
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, tried their hand at the theme of “Return to life 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 between the mountains of Bergamo Orobie. The friendship between the 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 join in these touching wishes with the utmost esteem and 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…
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…
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 was the only one in her family to survive concentration 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 of their lives. They were also an opportunity to illustrate 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…
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…
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…
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…
The documentary “Sciesopoli, a place of memory” directed by Enrico Grisanti, has been selected as a finalist of the International Film Festival CINECHILDREN of Ostiglia, near Mantua. Here’s the video of the interview with the director Enrico Grisanti, made by journalist of Radio Koper Ferruccio Crevatin. Intervista a Enrico Grisanti Read more…
Una petizione per salvare dall’oblio la memoria di Sciesopoli: Per firmare la petizione: Perché è importante Gentili Signori, il Comitato Promotore e i Firmatari di questa Petizione Vi chiedono di intervenire per salvare la Memoria di “Sciesopoli” ebraica (1945-1948) e prevenirne la distruzione. L’importante e architettonicamente significativo complesso di “Sciesopoli” Read more…
Si mobilita il paese di Selvino, tra le montagne della bergamasca. In questa ex colonia dell’Opera Balilla di Milano e del Gruppo Rionale Fascista Sciesa di Milano, nel dopoguerra, trovarono rifugio, arrivando da mezza Europa, centinaia di bambini e ragazzi ebrei sopravvissuti all’Olocausto. Nel 1945, subito dopo la Liberazione, la Read more…
[mp3t track=”https://www.sciesopoli.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Selvino-1989.mp3″ vol=”75″] Registrazione audio realizzata da Riccardo Schwamenthal in data 18 novembre 1989, durata 9 minuti e 6 secondi. Testimonianza di alcuni abitanti di Selvino: Teresa Bertocchi (custode dagli anni Sessanta per 22 anni della colonia), Battista Ghilardi e Andrea Cortinovis (il parruccchiere). Si accenna anche a Bettina Taramelli Read more…
Foto sul degrado di Sciesopoli, link al sito flickr.com
Selvino, la colonia di Sciesopoli: quel palazzo dove i bambini di ogni tempo e di ogni luogo ritrovarono la libertà e il gioco (scritto di Aurora Cantini)
Video dell’Istituto Luce su Sciesopoli fascista negli anni Trenta
Selvino: come salvare “Sciesopoli” e Aliyà Beth? Aliyà Beth significa “pellegrinaggio”, il ritorno degli ebrei nella terra di Israele, il viaggio verso Gerusalemme. (scritto da Marco Cavallarin, 16/01/2014 Milano) Tra i molti luoghi trascurati dalla storia e dalla memoria è la “Sciesopoli” di Selvino, colonia montana voluta dal fascismo negli Read more…