Events

Speakers: Lisa Ackerman Executive Vice President, World Monuments Fund Remembering a Difficult Past Alberto Giordano Chair, Geography Dept., Texas State University From the National to the Individual: Narratives of the Holocaust in Italy Welcoming remarks: Barbara Faedda Associate Director, Italian Academy, Columbia University Europe and the United Nations commemorate the victims of the Shoah each winter on the date of Auschwitz's liberation in 1945, and the Italian Academy marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with an annual academic event exploring issues of discrimination and crimes against humanity. In previous years, the Academy broadened its focus to explore groups that were targeted in the racism and xenophobia of the Nazi and Fascist regimes, and that suffered and died along with the millions of Jews. This year, the symposium will focus on the conservation and study of concentration camps in Italy.