The fourth lesson of the project “Le Case di Micòl”, involving class 4C of the Luigi Einaudi Institute, began by reviewing the topics discussed in the previous session: perpetrators and victims, survivors, and the few living testimonies to which we still have access today. We reflected on the fact that no one maintained a fixed role throughout […]

(first chapter: Ferrara) Memory is not an abstract concept: it is a path that crosses archives, houses, stories, and faces.And above all, it passes through the new generations. In the European project Le Case di Micòl, funded by the CERV programme, memory becomes a concrete experience — a process of research, listening, and storytelling involving students

At the core of Le Case di Micòl lies a fundamental question: How can a broken life be found again?Where do we look for the traces of everyday existence — the houses, the faces, the paths — of young Jewish women erased from history? This question guided the work of the Ferrara Institute of Contemporary History, a key