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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Giornata della Memoria 2014 – La Shoah dei bambini (conversazione con Bruno Maida) Nella ricorrenza del Giorno della Memoria, il 27 gennaio 2014, il prof. Bruno Maida (Università di Torino) è stato ospite della Scuola superiore dell’Università di Catania. Questo video è una sintesi della conversazione sul saggio “La Shoah Read more…