Friday,
February 01,
The Italian Lizzarrdi
Family that Sheltered 5 Jewish Children vs Nazis
Saluted on Holocaust Day
The
ANNOTICO Report
I
applaud the ceremony, but the "Never Again" rings rather hollow, when
Genocide is CURRENTLY Happening in 73
Countries, with 17 those in Category 7, the most gruesome degree of
Genocide.
Those 17are
Dufar, Sudan; Uganda; Congo; Ethiopia; Columbia;
Nepal; North Korea ; Afghanistan; Burma (
The
World Times News Report: http://news.wtnrradio.com/story.php?story=13
Now
why do so many people Commemorate a past Genocide, vowing "Never
Again", when under their very noses there are
SEVENTEEN GENOCIDES of the HIGHEST Degree now taking place, Not to
mention the dozens more at the 5th & 6th stages???????
Why
would they not instead of "Photo op" Commemorations and building
more and more Museums that teach Tolerance, Actually do SOMETHING?????????
I
find their efforts "blind" at least, and bizarre at most?????
I
Italians and Jews Mark Sombre
Anniversary
The Suburban,
By Remo Zaccagna
January 30, 2008
Jeannette Katz has had a
lifelong affection for the Italian people, and for good reason she credits them with saving her life 65
years ago.
In a
For more than four months, the children hid in the basement during the night
while their hosts worked construction and factory jobs in order to earn enough
money to support everyone.
They worked during the night to be able to take care of five Jewish
children. It wasnt easy and they never made us
feel any different from their own son," Katz, 77, said.
Katz told her story at downtowns Italian Cultural Institute on Sunday
evening before an overflowing audience that came to mark Interna
tional Holocaust Day, as well as the 70th anniversary
of
I wanted to come here to tell my story because people should know what
Italians did for us and to say that they hold a very special place in my
heart."
The evenings proceedings began when a four-member panel, which included
professors Lucienne Kroha
(McGill University), Francois Cripeau (Universiti de Montrial) and Eric
Volant (UQAM), presided over an hour-long question and answer period that
stemmed from their observations of the book LItalie
Fasciste et la Persicution
des Juifs.
A special screening of Paul Lees 45-minute documentary Bookmark: Primo
Levi followed
the discussion.
The audience included young and old, Italian and Jewish, and spilled out of the
room.
I think that g enocide has been such an
important event in recent history, that it is important for everybody to be
aware of that," said Francesco Paolo Venier, the
Consul General of Italy, who helped organize the event with the Cultural
Institute.
Im glad that youth came to this occasion because they have to remember
even more," he added. "The important thing is not to be in a
situation where you have your eyes closed again. These things happen because
our eyes are closed and this is what we have to avoid happening again."
Peter Subissati, public affairs officer for the
Israeli Consulate, agreed with Venier.
Its a good show of solidarity between communities, very important
communities, the Italian community and the Jewish community, and its nice
to have a show of support," he said. "Sadly, its for a tragic period
in history, but nonetheless its nice to see that several generations after
the Holocaust that we have a nice assembly of two peoples coming together to,
first of all to commemorate the tragic part of the history of Italy and of
Europe, but to say enough and that we will not repeat these things in
the future."
Subissati said he wasnt
surprised with the evenings turnout, given that, for the most part,
Italians have been accepting of the Jewish community in
Like the panel said earlier, Jews were at the vanguard of the Italian
nationalist movement; they were emancipated at the same time as this
nationalism was growing. And after the war, very few Italian Jews moved to
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