TESTIMONIES FROM EXTERMINATION CAMPS

dialogues at distance

april 2000

The celebration is about one of the deadliest moments of the history in '900: the nazi-fascist folly. That folly that represented by the racial laws, the persecutions, the deportations, the imprisonment, the death, the extermination of million and million of Hebrews and men that struggled against the nazi-fascism. The objective is cultivate the memory of that crimes, because the teachings of those pages of history must be fixed in the memory, and must help us to condemn and therefore to prevent any attempt to the liberty and the democracy. We have to draw teachings from the history; from the same history to the study of which Gramsci invited his son Delio.

It is our intention, therefore, to transmit the memory of what has been because it lives in the memory, in order to prevent that the worst thing the man has done to another man happens again. This is the reason why we have chosen to apply  particularly to the young people, to make them reflect on the sense of the history and on the great conquests done through great sufferings and mourning, often cancelled by human folly. With them we would like to reflect on the essence of the liberty and on the fact that all the things we that have today can’t be taken for granted.

The liberty, the same liberty conquered through hard sufferings, hard struggles, mourning, blood, can have an end. Gramsci for the affirmation of his liberty is imprisoned and he offers a thrilling idea of liberty to the whole humanity, testified by his writings, and by the letters that writes to his relatives, to his children, to his friends.

That’s why is realized the exhibition "Testimonies from extermination camp - dialogues at distance". The headmaster of the Nautical institute of Viareggio, Renzo Belli,  tell the experience of his young students that visited Auschwitz with some witnesses of the deportation and the extermination that in that places lived the annihilation of their dignity of men.