Holocaust Remembrance Day: To Be a Child During the Holocaust

Speakers:

Patricia Heberer Rice (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
In Their Own Words: The World of the Child During the Holocaust

Emily Langer (The Washington Post)
“We Are Very Lucky”: Two Young Italian Sisters Who Survived Auschwitz

Welcoming remarks:
Barbara Faedda (Italian Academy, Columbia University)

Europe and the United Nations commemorate the victims of the Shoah each winter on the date of Auschwitz’s liberation in 1945, and the Italian Academy marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with an annual academic event exploring issues of discrimination and crimes against humanity. In previous years, the Academy broadened its focus to explore groups that were targeted in the racism and xenophobia of the Nazi and Fascist regimes, and that suffered and died along with the millions of Jews: the Roma and Sinti (known as Gypsies); homosexuals; women; and the disabled. Last year, the event addressed music, Fascism, and the Holocaust.

The Italian Academy
1161 Amsterdam Avenue,
New York, NY 10027
(Just south of 118th Street)

Registration requested.