Rome, 27/01/2019. Today is the International Holocaust Day, also called Holocaust Memorial Day in UK & Italy. A day designated by the UN General Assembly resolution 60/7 on 1 November 2005 to remember the victims of the Holocaust: 6 million Jews, 2 million Gypsies (Roma & Sinti), 15,000 homosexual people, and millions of others killed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The 27th of January (1945) marks the day of the liberation by the Soviet Union Army of the largest death camp,...
more »Rome, 27/01/2019. Today is the International Holocaust Day, also called Holocaust Memorial Day in UK & Italy. A day designated by the UN General Assembly resolution 60/7 on 1 November 2005 to remember the victims of the Holocaust: 6 million Jews, 2 million Gypsies (Roma & Sinti), 15,000 homosexual people, and millions of others killed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The 27th of January (1945) marks the day of the liberation by the Soviet Union Army of the largest death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau (74th Anniversary). To coincide with the Holocaust Memorial Day the Palazzo delle Esposizioni presents its last experiential exhibition called Witnesses of Witnesses. Remembering and Recounting Auschwitz. From the event website: <<Following a memory trip to Auschwitz, the heart of the devastating Shoah that rocked and shocked the 20th century, a group of students from various Rome high schools began to envisage a different way of recalling those horrific events. These boys' and girls' encounter with Studio Azzurro – a well-known Italian artists' collective involved in experimenting with the language of new media – has spawned "Witnesses' Testimonials. Recalling and recounting Auschwitz," the first experiential exhibition designed by students in an institutional space within the capital, to be experienced as an event that urges visitors to undertake a physical and mental journey to keep the memory of the story alive. […] A narrow space, which visitors are urged to enter, conjures up the cattle trucks used for deportation. The doors slide shut. In the darkness we hear the voices of Mussolini and Hitler, the frenzied chanting of the adoring crowds, and the insistent drumming of the train on the tracks. The doors open […]>>.
For more info please click here:
https://www.palazzoesposizioni.it/ &
https://bit.ly/2RkbUTT« less![Rome, 27/01/2019. Today is the International Holocaust Day, also called Holocaust Memorial Day in UK & Italy. A day designated by the UN General Assembly resolution 60/7 on 1 November 2005 to remember the victims of the Holocaust: 6 million Jews, 2 million Gypsies (Roma & Sinti), 15,000 homosexual people, and millions of others killed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. The 27th of January (1945) marks the day of the liberation by the Soviet Union Army of the largest death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau (74th Anniversary). To coincide with the Holocaust Memorial Day the Palazzo delle Esposizioni presents its last experiential exhibition called Witnesses of Witnesses. Remembering and Recounting Auschwitz. From the event website: <<Following a memory trip to Auschwitz, the heart of the devastating Shoah that rocked and shocked the 20th century, a group of students from various Rome high schools began to envisage a different way of recalling those horrific events. These boys' and girls' encounter with Studio Azzurro – a well-known Italian artists' collective involved in experimenting with the language of new media – has spawned "Witnesses' Testimonials. Recalling and recounting Auschwitz," the first experiential exhibition designed by students in an institutional space within the capital, to be experienced as an event that urges visitors to undertake a physical and mental journey to keep the memory of the story alive. […] A narrow space, which visitors are urged to enter, conjures up the cattle trucks used for deportation. The doors slide shut. In the darkness we hear the voices of Mussolini and Hitler, the frenzied chanting of the adoring crowds, and the insistent drumming of the train on the tracks. The doors open […]>>.<br />
For more info please click here: https://www.palazzoesposizioni.it/ & https://bit.ly/2RkbUTT](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000vBfsXHp4Yas/s/800/800/IMG-1295.jpg)
