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 […]
International Symposium: a workshop for reflection and exchange Read Post »
The second meeting of the project began with Professor Bentivogli sharing a valuable and effective online resource for understanding the Holocaust. It is a timeline covering the years from 1933 to 1945, available at timelineoftheholocaust.org. For each year, the most important events are presented, always accompanied by images and videos. These include not only original
Class 4C – Second Lesson: Understanding the Holocaust Through Sources and Images Read Post »
Our class, 4C of the Luigi Einaudi Institute in Ferrara, has joined the project “Le Case di Micòl”, an initiative whose goal is to remember all the victims of the Holocaust, using the figure of Micòl — the protagonist of the novel The Garden of the Finzi-Continis — as a guiding example. More specifically, all of us will take
Class 4C Joins Le Case di Micòl: Becoming Bearers of Active Remembrance Read Post »
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
An open door in Antwerp – the Micòl and the power of Welcome Read Post »
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
Kraków and Warsaw: Two Homes to Remember, One Micòl Read Post »
