On the occasion of the "International Holocaust Remembrance Day", the Embassy of the State of Israel in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute(ICI) will be screening "Eravamo Italiani" directed by Ruggero Gabbai with English subtitles at the ICI on Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
Forma International, the producer of the three films, combined extracts taken from the three main productions about the Italian Shoah and managed to draw a complete and unique portrait of such an experience, recalling the tragic events of the racial laws, the persecution and the deportation of the Italian Jews in death camps.
The testimonies in Memoria, The Longest Journey and Fossoli highlight the Italian features of the Nazi-Fascist persecutions, always focusing on the witness and his story, which has a meaning both personal and collective.
The Holocaust refers to the period of 1941, the beginning to “the final solution” to 1945, when the war in Europe officially ended. During this time, 6,000,000 Jews (1.5 million of these being children) were murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices, and more than 5,000 Jewish communities were destroyed.
In 2005 The General Assembly of the UN decided that the United Nations will designate 27 January -– the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp -- as an annual International Day of Commemoration to honor the victims of the Holocaust, to instill the memory of the tragedy in future generations to prevent genocide from occurring again.