(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

The Symposium was not a traditional academic conference, but an international space for dialogue—bringing together the voices of project partners, students, and experts.At the core of the event was a key question: How can cinema and the narrative of places become tools for transmitting Jewish memory to new generations, giving voice and dignity back to

At the heart of Le Case di Micòl, every house is a threshold between past and present. In Belgium, that threshold opens onto an address in Antwerp, on Lange Leemstraat, chosen to represent the Belgian Micòl: Jenta Gothelf. Her story is one of discretion and courage, of loss and renewal, deeply intertwined with the history

In the project Le Case di Micòl, every location marked on the map is not just an address: it is a threshold, a voice, a wound. And while Ferrara holds two places of memory for Carla Neppi, the Italian Micòl, in Poland the traces lead us to two symbolic cities of Jewish memory: Kraków and