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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
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…
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…
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…
“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 January 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers arrived in Auschwitz in southern Read more…
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…
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…
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…
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…
[sz-youtube url=”http://youtu.be/9JBtjD_8tEk” /]TV debate of Bergamo, between Lara Gizzards, Simona Murero and Paul Carrara, proposals and ideas to save Sciesopoli. Aim to save Sciesopoli and value it for its history of Jewish children, including Expo, fairy tales and a rebirth of Sciesopoli destined to social services for children. A museum Read more…
[codepeople-post-map] In Danimarca ci fu il salvataggio di 7-8 mila ebrei per l’opposizione di un popolo intero e del giovane ufficiale delle SS “Werner Best” che fecce il doppio gioco. Come a Gilleleje, villaggio di pescatori all’estremo nord dello stretto di Øresund. Millesettecento anime che da un giorno all’altro si Read more…
[codepeople-post-map] LINK SU SCUOLA E SHOAH Villa Emma a Nonantola (Modena), 1942-1943 A Nonantola in provincia di Modena, c’è la villa che accolse 73 ragazzi ebrei in fuga nell’Europa sconvolta dalla guerra, dove rimasero fra l’estate del 1942 e l’autunno del 1943. Fuggirono dopo l’8 settembre per scampare all’arresto e Read more…