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Gariwo for Remembrance Day

For Remembrance Day 2023 Gariwo offers a rich offer of initiatives:

•    Podcast "Stories of the Righteous"
Gariwo's podcast dedicated to the figures honored at the Garden of the Righteous in Milan is back, in its second season. It starts on January 27th with Fernanda Wittgens, the inspector of Brera who saved works of art and persecuted people during the Second World War, and continues until March 6th, Day of the Righteous, with five other figures. The podcast will be listenable on all platforms and on Radio Popolare, within the Prisma broadcast. Info: http://gariwo.net/podcast

•    Exhibition "100 Righteous from the world"
Much appreciated especially by schools, the exhibition 100 Righteous from the World returns to the Shoah Memorial in Milan, starting from Tuesday 10 January and until Sunday 5 February: the exhibition, which was hosted in November 2019 at the Memorial, tells the stories of men and women who chose the opposite of indifference, extending a hand, even at their own risk. The exhibition features 14 drawings by Jean Blanchaert.

•    Travel Community of Memory
From 20 to 26 January 2023, courses dedicated to secondary schools to orient themselves in history and to understand contemporaneity, through the direct experience of the places that were the scene of the dramatic events of the twentieth century and the stories of those who lived them. The male and female students will experience the journey and the potential of peer education, on a journey between Krakow and the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. The departure will be from the Garden of the Righteous of the World in Milan, at 16pm on January 20th. The president of Gariwo will participate Gabriele Nissim and that of the Shoah Memorial Roberto Jarach. Institutional greetings from Mario Vanni (Head of Cabinet of the Mayor of Milan) e Giulia Pelucchi (president of the VIII Municipality).

•    Cinema and Shoah
Two meetings in Milan to discuss memory with Gariwo on the sidelines of film screenings. Wednesday 25 January at 17,50 pm at the Cinema Anteo: Polanski, Horowitz. Hometown. The road of memories by Mateusz Kudła and Anna Kokoszka-Romer (Poland, 75'). Followed by debate with Francesco M. Cataluccio (from 19,05pm to 19,40pm). Thursday 26 January at 19,30 pm at the Cinema Ariosto: Three Minutes. A lengthening (USA, 111') by Bianca Stiger. Introduction to the film by Francesco M. Cataluccio.

•    Conference "Places of Memory to teach the Shoah"
A meeting organized by the Research Center on International Relations of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan in collaboration with the CDEC Foundation, the Shoah Memorial of Milan, the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, Gariwo and the Sons of the Shoah. Among the speakers will be Prof. Annamaria Samuelli, head of teaching at Gariwo, who will propose a speech entitled "The Garden of Milan: educating young people about responsibility through the example of the Righteous of humanity". The scientific direction of the seminar is Prof. Milena Santerini, Professor of General and Social Pedagogy at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan. The event will be held on January 18th from 16pm to 00pm, in Room P.18, Pime Headquarters, in Via Eleuterio Pagliano, 30 - Milan.

•    Draw me your tree
Draw Me Your Tree is a concert for chamber ensembles and fantasy drawings on the occasion of Remembrance Day. Children are invited to draw their imaginary Tree of the Righteous and bring it to the concert. A project aimed at primary and lower secondary school students which aims to bring children closer to the stories of the Righteous, models who teach how to live sustainably in the world. The event will be held on Thursday 26 January at 18pm and is part of the Allegro Sostenibile series: five events dedicated to sustainability in the program of the Teatro del Buratto at the Teatro Bruno Munari in Milan.

•    Nedo, civil theater monologue - Pime Theatre
January 27, 2023 at 10:30 am for high schools
January 27, 2023 at 21:00 pm for civil society
Nedo is a civil theater monologue written by Alessandra Dondi, Alice Ponti, Matilde Dalla Piazza and Antonio Roma. Nedo enjoys the patronage of the Gariwo Foundation - the forest of the Righteous, because we believe that his precious testimony must continue to be told, so as not to leave room for indifference. Nedo Fiano lived through the hell of Auschwitz and decided to tell it, no matter how much harm he could do. He told the kids about his experience in the concentration camp to teach them to become sentinels against every new form of hatred, because we must always be aware that evil can return if we leave space and freedom and democracy can be lost.

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