In 2005, the
United
Nations General Assembly voted a resolution to establish
the
International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January.
http://www.un.org/en/holocaustremembrance/docs/res607.shtml
In 2000,
Italy had established by law the same day as
Giorno
della Memoria.
http://www.camera.it/parlam/leggi/00211l.htm
Trieste unfortunately was home to "
the only
example of a Nazi concentration camp in Italy":
the "Risiera di San Sabba".
In 1965, a decree issued by the President of the Republic raised
the “Risiera di San Sabba” to the status of National Monument
.
As of 1975, the premises house a Museum.
“Risiera” is a former rice-husking facility
that was built in 1898. After September 8, 1943, the Nazi
occupation forces used the premises as prison camp,
headquarters where deported prisoners were sorted out to be
sent to Germany and Poland, raided goods depot, prison and
extermination camp for hostages, partisans, political and
Jewish prisoners. On April 4, 1944 a crematory plant was
installed and made operative.
more on http://www.risierasansabba.it/english/
The Municipality is organizing several events this week to
celebrate the Remembrance Day:
http://www.risierasansabba.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/GIORNO_MEMORIA_PIEGHEVOLE.pdf
The main official ceremony will take place on Wednesday, 27
January 2016 at 11:00 at Risiera di San Sabba, participation is
of course open.
Quote from the
message
from Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the
occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory
of the Victims of the Holocaust, 27 January 2016
This
spirit of remembrance, prevention and vigilance guides
UNESCO in its Holocaust and genocide education programme,
unique within the United Nations, through teacher training
and the renewal of teaching methods, curricula and
textbooks. Today, I call upon all Member States to
participate in the effort to make this chapter of history
better known in schools and media everywhere, as widely as
possible. The exercise is complex, because studying
genocide and its processes confronts us with the worst of
humanity. It also enables us to discover the courage and
foresight of those who were able to see the approaching
storm and resist barbarity. In tribute to those men and
women, and in memory of the victims, let us become the
actors of active remembrance; remembrance that is turned
towards the future and committed to the dignity of each
and every human being, as a foundation for peace.