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REMEMBRANCE DAY 2024 - COMPLETE SCHEDULE OF INITIATIVES

Remembrance Day 2024 in Milan will be even richer in events, testimonies and moments of reflection compared to 2023. The growth of the anniversary has been constant for years, demonstrating an increased awareness on the part of the city and its actors, of the historical and cultural need to transmit the memory of the facts that marked the twentieth century and the entire history of humanity.  
A growth that also occurs, and perhaps above all, thanks to the commitment over the years of the witnesses of those years who, starting from Senator Liliana Segre, have allowed us to build shared knowledge and a need for reflection on the value of history and human actions.   
The schedule of events organized on the occasion of January 27th is rich, spread across the entire territory and open to all towns and citizens.  
There are over 60 initiatives of different types, from meetings with students to official celebrations, with numerous languages, from music to words, from images to documentaries. 

Monday 22 January, at 12:00, in the Clock Room a Palazzo Marino, the Mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala, together with Senator for life Liliana Segre, presented the events scheduled for Remembrance Day 2024, those organized by the administration and those coming from the city's subjects, collected in the schedule on the "Milan is memory" website.
The live broadcast of the press conference will be visible for 10 days in the "Milan is memory" section of the WebTv Radio of the Municipality of Milan.
The program is below. 

The City Council meeting on Monday 22 January, as the anniversary of Remembrance Day approaches, will be dedicated to the complex and sadly current topic of hate speech. Together with the Mayor and the President Elena Buscemi Senator Elena Cattaneo, the country director of Meta, Luca Colombo, the rector of IULM, Gian Battista Canova and professor Federico Faloppa will reflect on the topic. Follow, at 16 pm, live streaming.

On January 25th the laying of 26 new Stumbling Stones will begin, thanks to the work of Committee for Stumbling Stones of Milan, 13 dedicated to political deportees and 13 dedicated to racial deportees. The installations will continue on March 7, the days in which the eightieth anniversary of the strikes of March 1944 occurs. 
With those laid in March, 197 stones will be laid, each in memory of a person deported from Milan and killed in a concentration camp. They are a fundamental piece of the Second World War, of racial and political persecution and of anti-fascism; but, above all, an important part of the history and identity of the city of Milan. 

The names, stories and backgrounds of the people remembered by the 2024 Stumbling Blocks will be presented in a evening in the House of Memory

These "stumbles", which since 2017 have restored individuality to the victims of deportations, for the fourth consecutive year will also have a digital narrative declination thanks to the collaboration between the Stumbling Stones Committee - Milan and the European Institute of Design, with the patronage of The municipality of Milan. Click here for the detail of the Stumbling Stones laid in 2024.

On Remembrance Day 2024, Saturday 27 January 2024 from 11:00, in the presence of Deputy Mayor Anna Scavuzzo, theState University confers an honorary degree in Historical Sciences to Senator for life Liliana Segre, an extraordinary witness of the Holocaust who has always been committed against all forms of anti-Semitism, racism and intolerance. Poster

The day before, January 26th at 9am, at the former Albergo Regina in via Silvio Pellico, in the presence of the Councilor Emmanuel Conte, there will be the laying of crowns in memory of the partisans, striking workers, resisters, Jews tortured in the Nazi General Command in Milan. ANED, ANPI e UCEI organize on January 26th, with the participation of President Buscemi, a meeting in Sala Alessi a Palazzo Marino, with the students and January 27, at 10 a.m., the Commemoration at the Monument to the Deported Persons in the North Park.

On January 24, 2024, at 17 pm the Concert for Remembrance Day – ANPI Milan at the Ridotto dei Palchi “Arturo Toscanini” - Teatro alla Scala.
L'Entrance will be free while seats last. The concert will be recorded and streamed on website of the Teatro alla Scala and on the channels Facebook e YouTube of the Theatre, Saturday 27 January at 18pm. 

As has happened for years, this year too SEA organizes an exhibition at Linate in the departures area. The exhibition project “STARS WITHOUT SKY” will be inaugurated on Wednesday 24 January 2024, at 14.30 pm with the participation of the Councilor Tommaso Sacchi. It is divided into thematic chapters and proposes some symbolic topics of the childhood world dramatically persecuted in all the Jewish communities of Europe. The exhibition is in collaboration with theSons of the Shoah Association. 

The Sons of the Shoah association also proposes the "DON'T FORGET" exhibition at the Brera Library, Concert for schools for Remembrance Day at the Verdi Conservatory in Milan and the institutional concert for citizens for Remembrance Day, with the participation of the Councillor Alessia Cappello, at the Verdi Conservatory in Milan; Saturday 27 January 2024 at 18.45pm. 

Numerous and distributed throughout the month, they are the initiatives organized at Casa della Memoria, among others, as mentioned above, on Wednesday 24 January, at 20.30 pm: the meeting will be held "The Stumbling Stones 2024 in Milan”, with the participation of the President of the City Council Elena Buscemi and the President of the Stumbling Stones Committee of Milan Alessandra Minerbi. During the meeting, the project of the students of the school will be presented IED and from the preview of the new website of the Stones of Stumbling in Milan. Testimonies and stories from the relatives of the victims of the Nazi deportations remembered in 2024 will be the starting point for a shared reflection. 

Il Memorial offers an intense agenda of appointments, there will be a new exhibition that explores a female story, free visits, musical moments and book presentations.
Saturday January 27, in particular, the Memorial opens from 10:00 to 18:00, for afull day of free visits. On the occasion of Remembrance Day, the guides of the Memorial will accompany visitors on the visit route, thus opening the doors completely free of charge for visitors. 
It will be possible book entry for a visit to the Memorial site

An important anniversary occurs on January 30th: 
On the morning of January 30, 1944, the second of the twenty deportation trains left, with 605 people headed for Auschwitz. Among these, Liliana Segre and her father Alberto. Since 1997, the Community of Sant'Egidio has organized a commemorative ceremony every January 30th, a moment which also gave rise to the project of creating a Memorial. This January 30th marks the 80th anniversary of that morning in 1944, and as every year it is expected at the Memorial, in the presence of the Deputy Mayor Anna Scavuzzo, the ceremony organized by Community of Sant'Egidio. Among others, Liliana Segre will speak. In addition to the initiative of the S. Egidio Community on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the deportation of Sen. Liliana Segre, to mark this important anniversary, starting from Monday 22 January, the Memorial will host an exhibition of documents curated by CDEC Foundation: a collection of documents that will tell some of the stories of the people deported that cold morning in 1944, integrated into the visit itinerary to the Memorial. A way to give substance to the story that the visitor experiences, and to make known the stories behind the names: stories of real life, of families, friendships, human communities. 

Also Gariwo proposes a rich program of activities, characterized by different languages ​​and experiential methodologies, aimed at schools and citizens, to respond in a concrete way to the increasingly looming need to ignite the human and break indifference: 

• Screening of the film "The last time we were children" - Saturday 27 January 2024, 9.30 am: Anteo Palazzo del Cinema - Milan, in the presence of President Buscemi 
• Third season podcast Stories of the Righteous - Saturday 27 January 2024 
• Seminary "Story of the Shoah and hostile languages. Countering prejudice in the classroom” Tuesday 16 January 2024, from 16.30 pm to 18.30 pm and online - Shoah Memorial, Piazza Edmond Safra 1 - Milan 
• First departure of Community of Memory 2024 - Tuesday 23 January 2024, 16.00 pm - Garden of the Righteous of Milan, Via Cimabue 40 – Milan 
• is online GariwoMag, Gariwo's magazine to understand the world and prevent hatred.

For more info on the Gariwo program: click here

Citadel of Archives organizes, in collaboration with ANPI Niguarda, visits by students (the "Franceschi" comprehensive school in via Cagliero and the "Falcone e Borsellino" middle school in viale Sarca) to discover the 1938 Census of Israelites. 
On the occasion of Remembrance Day, this year too, the Administration will make public the geo map 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 for consultation, thanks to the collaboration ofSIT unit (Territorial Information System) of the Municipality of Milan.

The Library System involves, on the occasion, numerous libraries with various initiatives.

THEBrera Academy gives its contribution to Remembrance Day with three events: 

• MEMORY IS NOT SILENT #1 Lectio by the Israeli writer, playwright and activist Roy Chen (Friday 26 January, 16pm. Room 00, Brera Academy of Fine Arts, via Brera 10.) 
• MEMORY IS NOT SILENT #2 Thursday 25 January, 18 pm, in the underground spaces of the Garibaldi Station and its railway link, a selection of works by eighteen students of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts entitled Memory is not silent (Railway Link, Porta Garibaldi Station) will be presented. From January 25th to February 11th. Inauguration January 25th at 18.00pm.) 
• MEMORY IS NOT SILENT #3 On Wednesday 24 January, at 12, the exhibition «Don't forget» will open at the “Guido Ballo” Contemporary Art Library. “Guido Ballo” contemporary art library, via Brera 28. Inauguration Wednesday 24 January 2024 at 12:00. From January 24, 2024 to February 24, 2024. 

All projects Harlequin Film Library, on January 27th, at 17:00 pm, the Screening of the docufilm on Alessandro Rimini. A story of discrimination and removal that of Alessandro Rimini, a Jewish architect and painter from whom the racial laws stripped him of the authorship of works such as the first skyscraper in Milan (now Torre San Babila) or the Cardarelli Hospital in Naples. This documentary - created by the Order of Architects of Bologna as part of Architecture and Remembrance, a study project on the persecution of Jews in Europe - reconstructs Rimini's work, restoring its human and professional dignity. 

The young woman Tracce cultural association, which aims to organize programs of artistic initiatives linked to the themes of deportation and the memory of all the victims of Nazi-fascism, be they Jews, partisans, political opponents; organize a trip on the Stumbling Stones through the project "TWO INSIDE A FIRE. STORIES OF STONE", departing from Santa Maria delle Grazie, on January 27th, at 15 pm. Reservation required info@letracce.org

La Deportation Memory Foundation organizes on January 29, 2024 at 18:00 pm in Via Dogana 3, Milan the presentation of the podcast dedicated to the architect of memory and survivor of the concentration camp Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso created as part of the project “Architectures of Memory: Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso and the Milanese Deportation”.

On February 2nd, at 10:00 am, in Sala Alessi a Palazzo Marino with the project "From Milan to Mauthausen, 9 Municipalities for Memory” with the students who participated in the trip to Mauthausen who “give back”, in a public session, in the presence of Deputy Mayor Scavuzzo, their experience to the citizens.

I Municipal Districts they become protagonists by offering numerous initiatives to citizens, below are some of the initiatives which can all be consulted in the complete schedule at the top of the page.

Il Town Hall 2, proposes:

• 26 Jan 17.30pm Council Room of the Town Hall 2 viale Zara 100 - Testimony by Maurizio Barbarello from Aned with the ColorOrchestra
• 27 Jan 14pm - 30pm initiative "Let's rediscover Memory”. Walk organized by ANPI 10 AUGUST 1944, with the participation of GiraNolo and La città del sole - Friends of the Trotter park, to discover some of the stumbling blocks present in the territory of Municipality 2, on the occasion of the celebrations for the international anniversary of Memorial Day. 

  We will start from viale Monza 102, home of the deported Silvano Polenghi, at 14 pm on 30 January 27, to continue towards the stages of:
  viale Monza 90 (Olga Revere)
  via Padova 100 (Dante Villa)
  via Oxilia 13 (Romano Perelli)
  via Oxilia 21 (Giuseppe Ceccatelli)
  via Battaglia 41 (Ugo Milla)
  viale Monza 23 (Angelo Aglieri)
  The journey will end at the headquarters of the ANPI Association on 10 August 1944 at 16 pm - Bell Net space in Largo Fratelli Cervi 30.
  Poster
  For more information write to: anpi10agosto1944@gmail.com

• 30 Jan 18pm at the Shoah memorial - "Memory of the deportation from Milan station" promoted by the Community of Sant'Egidio Milano Onlus 
• 5 Feb, open rehearsal of the show "Io Ricordi" on the life of Liliana Segre at Passante Repubblica Auditorium AlmaRosè 

 
Il Town Hall 3, presents:

• Stefano Cerri Auditorium in Via Carlo Valvassori Peroni 56, Milan - Tuesday 23 January 2024 at 10.00 am 
  Theatrical show dedicated in particular to the students of those Lombardy schools that have joined the Association's project "On train for Memory". 
  The show "THOSE BOYS OF '43 and '44" is a monologue conducted by the actor Marco Balma who narrates what happened in the spring of 1943 and 1944 during the strikes against the Nazi-Fascist regime in Milan. 
• Stefano Cerri Auditorium in Via Carlo Valvassori Peroni 56, Milan - Sunday 28 January 2024 at 17.00 pm 
  Show organized by Municipality 3 in partnership with ANPI, ANED, ANPPIA, ANPC and FIAP 
  Theater work “STOLPERSTEINE. STUMMING STONES” by Pasquale Savarese 
  focused on the protagonists and events linked to the historical period of the Shoah. 
  Four journalists face an interminable train journey from Milan to Auschwitz, metaphorically stopping in some of the most emblematic episodes of the Shoah and focusing on the chronicle of the events with the formula of the story interpreted by the protagonists themselves. 
  The actors are first reporters, then Nazi torturers, deported Jews, until they remain imprisoned in the stories they document. They will end their journey on the platform of Auschwitz and with a time leap they will find themselves in the extermination camp ready to enter hell. 
  There are 6 stories told: Racial laws - Stolpersteine, Stumbling blocks - Bucci sisters - Killer cyclone - Commander in Auschwitz - Rudolf Höss - The children of the Shoah " 

 
Il Town Hall 4 organizes, Friday 26 January at 10.45 am at memorial stone dedicated to Alfredino Winter in Piazzale Martini, a public commemoration ceremony for Remembrance Day with local schools and associations. On 19, 20 and 21 February, at 11.30 am, some lower secondary classes of the Sottocorno Institute in Rogoredo will go to visit the Shoah Memorial. The Municipality purchased the tickets in collaboration with ANPI Rogoredo.
 
Il Town Hall 5 proposes:

On January 27, at 19 pm, lo Theatrical show “The banality of evil” - Centro Asteria and an event of testimonies on the journey From Milan to Mauthausen at the ITIS Feltrinelli involving the Bertarelli, Feltrinelli, CAG Lo Scrigno institutes 

Il Town Hall 6 has made thousands of postcards which will be distributed in schools, libraries, associations and various posters to be displayed throughout the area. The documents that appear on the postcards have the purpose not only of remembering but also of giving possible food for thought and/or research to citizens and teachers. 
 
In Town Hall 7:

• January 27, 2024, from 16:00 pm to 18:00 pm, ANPI organized theinitiative “Celebration of Remembrance Day” at the Degradi salon in via Zanzottera 14 and on 30 January 2024, from 9:00 to 10:30 at the Manara primary school, via Lamennais 20. 
• On 27 January 2024 - at 21 pm in the Council Room, performance by the Col Hakolot Choir who will perform various songs of the Jewish tradition; 
• On 31 January 2024 - 18 pm, in the Sala Olivetani in Municipio 00, presentation of the book "The lessons of the Shoah" with Emanuele Fiano, former parliamentarian and President of the Jewish Community of Milan.

Town Hall 8: 

• January 23rd at 16pm Garden of the Righteous with Gariwo to greet the classes leaving for the journey of remembrance 
• "Memory sets us free" Anpi meets the students of the Beccaria High School on the occasion of Remembrance Day, 26 January from 11am to 13pm at the Liceo, Via Linneo 5 
• "...just a suitcase" words and music so as not to forget, Sunday 28 January at 16pm Labriola cooperative organized by Coop Bonola members, anpi sez. Poletti and Coop. Labriola 
• Saturday 27 January at 18.30 pm, Sala Giovanni Marzona, Villa Scheibler, via Orsini 21. Concert for Memory, with songs and readings by middle and high school students, promoted by the Giardino della Musica Association, Vill@perta, ANPI sez. Carla Del Rosso from Quarto Oggiaro. 
• Exhibition on Remembrance Day, from Saturday 27 January to Saturday 3 February, at the former Villa Scheibler church, via Orsini 21, promoted by ANPI sez. Carla Del Rosso from Quarto Oggiaro, ANPI sect. Arturo Capettini from Musocco-Vialba, Vill@perta. 

Finally, in the Town Hall 9: the presentation of the book “Sicilians witnesses of freedom will be held on Sunday 21 January at 11:00 am. Twelve stories of deportees to Nazi concentration camps" in Via Hermada 8 and on 27 January theinauguration of a mural dedicated to the Niguarda Resistance (taken from the photo of the barricade in via Adriatico on the corner of via Palanzone) - edited by ANPI Niguarda with the free patronage of Municipality 9.