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Milan, January 26 2022 – The national, European and civic flags will be displayed at half-mast on all municipal buildings on the occasion of Remembrance Day, tomorrow Thursday 27 January.

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Furthermore, on the occasion of the anniversary, the Municipality of Milan will make public the geomap of the Jewish population registered in Milan in 1938, based on the documentation contained in the Israelite Fund preserved at the Citadel of Archives. The map will be available at this point link starting from 8.30 tomorrow morning until 8.30 on Friday 28th.
The Jewish census was carried out by the Municipality starting from August 1938 in view of the enactment of the fascist racial laws. With a telegram dated 11 August, the Prefecture ordered the identification of "Jewish" citizens, Italians and foreigners, resident and/or present in the Milanese territory from that date.
On the eve of the census, depending on the sources, there were an estimated 6.200 residents according to data from the Union of Italian Jewish Communities and over 10 thousand Jewish residents according to the Ministry of the Interior.
10.591 names were registered: on the geomap it is possible to search by name and address, with a short biographical card placed next to each address. The names without certain information are automatically placed in the center of the city, in Piazza Duomo.

As part of the vast program of events and initiatives planned in the municipalities these days (and available on site Milan is Memory), the commemoration ceremony will be held tomorrow, at 9.30 am, in the presence of Budget Councilor Emmanuel Conte representing the municipal administration, in front of the headquarters of the former Regina hotel, in via Silvio Pellico.

Starting from 9 am, the councilor for Welfare and Health Lamberto Bertolé will speak at the online conference "Telling the Shoah", organized by the University of Milan, to bring the institutional greetings of the Municipality of Milan. The meeting will be accessible via the Microsoft Teams platform. To get the access link you can write an email to: events.diritti@unimi.it.

At 11 am, the President of the City Council Elena Buscemi and the councilor Conte will participate in the online meeting with the students of the city schools promoted by ANPI, ANED and the Deportation Memory Foundation. The event will be streamed on the Facebook channels of ANED Milan and ANPI Provinciale Milan and YouTube ANED Deportation and ANPI Provinciale Milan.

At 18,30 pm, at the PAC in Milan, in the presence of the Councilor for Culture Tommaso Sacchi, a special screening of the making of the work by the artist and activist Tania Bruguera will be held, created in collaboration with the National Association of Former Deportees in Nazi Camps (ANED). The screening will be preceded by a connection with Tania Bruguera, in dialogue with the curator of the exhibition Diego Sileo. Free entry, without reservation.

Deputy Mayor Anna Scavuzzo and Security Councilor Marco Granelli will take part in the concert "Forbidden music as an instrument of resistance: Blues, Swing and Jazz", organized by the "Sons of the Shoah" Association, the Jewish Community of Milan, the Milan Conservatory, CDEC, Shoah Memorial Foundation of Milan. At 20,30 pm at the 'Giuseppe Verdi' Conservatory of Milan.