Commemorations of Memorial Day 2021

 

Here are the initiatives organized in collaboration with Europe Direct of the City of Venice:

Sunday, January 24, 2021 at 11:00 live streaming from the Teatro La Fenice

 

Program:

Nabucco: The festive furnishings fall down shattered - Giuseppe Verdi

Ich wandre durch Theresienstadt - Ilse Werbe

Nabucco: Let’s think about the golden wings - Giuseppe Verdi

Wiegala - Ilse Webe

 

Choir of the Teatro La Fenice directed by Claudio Marino Moretti

Contralto Valeria Girardello

Piano and accordion Ulisse Trabacchin

- 12 January 2021, 18.00

The author converses with Simon Levis Sullam (Ca' Foscari University Venice) and Gadi Luzzatto Voghera (Centro Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea Milano)

The appointment takes place on Zoom with mandatory registration

 

- 19 January 2021, 15.30

Institutional greetings: Ca' Foscari University Venice, Jewish Community of Venice and Council of Europe Office of Venice

Speakers: Gadi Luzzato Voghera (Director of Centro Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea Milano) and Milena Santerini (National Coordinator for the fight against anti-Semitism)

With readings by the writer Tiziano Scarpa and students of Ca' Foscari

=> International conference:

3 February, at 16.30

Memory, law and rights/ Memory, law and rights

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention against Genocide

Institutional greetings: Ca' Foscari University Venice, Cestudir, Council of Europe Office of Venice

Speakers: Paola Gaeta (Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies), Sara De Vido (Delegate for the Day of Remembrance and Remembrance Ca' Foscari University Venice; Associate Professor of International Law), William Schabas (Professor Middlesex University London), Leyla Ferman (Chair of Women for Justice), Matteo Rosati (Unesco).

The conference is held in English.

The appointment takes place on Zoom with mandatory registration

In the framework of the Venice City Council’s Programme for Memorial Day 2021, the Council of Europe will, together with the Sons of the Shoah Association, the Jewish Museum of Venice, Coopculture and the Cinema Circuit of the City of Venice, in collaboration with Ca' Foscari University and Europe Direct Venice, four moments to remember:

 

- On Saturday 30 January at 17:00 the conference "Porrajmos, the genocide of the Roma and Sinti", with a virtual visit to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, in which Dijana Pavlovic, human rights activist

 

- Thursday, 4 February at 17:30 online opening of the exhibition "The drawings of the children of Terezin", a presentation of the most significant drawings and poems of the children of the ghetto of Terezin

 

- Monday 8 February at 18:00 Matteo Corradini tells Terenzin to young people: "The Dragon of Doris - Stories of art in the ghetto, between stolen pastels and spaceships". The writer and Jew will tell the life that children led in the field that the Nazi propaganda presented as "model ghetto"