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R CORDANO LA SHOAH

Una mostra itinerante per l‘Italia

COMPETITION “Young people remember Shoah”

Among the themes developed by the students, visitors will appreciate collections of testimonies, destruction of the social

tissue due to the Racial Laws of 1938, forms of Civil and Jewish resistance to Nazi Domination, the return and

necessity of Memory transmission concerning what happened, current events happening worldwide concerning new forms of racism and discrimination.

The vitality, ardour and empathy expressed by these works – along with the analysis preceding their creation – are indicators of a shared and living Memory, made concrete and updated by these “young” narrative voices.

In the last few years, students have showed a particular interest in what is currently happening in Europe and

worldwide, where the massive increasing of immigration flows produces new forms of racism and intolerance toward

the “different”. Despite the due distinctions, the analogies observed by students between old and new acts of discrimination show how the study of the tragic event of Shoah plays a crucial role in raising the awareness of the new generations.

The exhibition is an initiative advertised by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research- Directorate General for Student, Integration and Participation- and Union of the Italian Jewish Communities. The project is curated for MIUR by Giuseppe Pierro and Alessandra Baldi and for UCEI by Emanuele Ascarelli and Sira Fatucci. The exhibition has been also realized thanks to the collaboration of Paola Molica and Enrico Campelli.

After 14 years of successful experience in the national competition “YOUNG PEOPLE REMEMBER SHOAH”, the Ministry of Education, University and Research- Directorate General for Student, Integration and Participation, in collaboration with the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities proposes an itinerant exhibition dedicated to a non-exclusively scholastic audience gathering some of the works realized for the competition by students from primary, secondary and high schools in the last few years.

The idea of an itinerant exhibition aims both to acknowledge the tireless work carried on by Italian students and teachers all over the Country and to encourage the participation of a wider number of students and education institutions to the competition.

The exhibition includes approximately seventy works selected among those proposed for the competition in the last few years. We have tried to consider also the artworks that, despite not receiving awards, reveal the students’ emotional involvement and a deep historical research.

The decision of including a wide range of works represents a precise expositive choice, showing how such a delicate and complex matter can be developed through different techniques of artistic expression: graphic and painting works, classroom walls, drypoint printings, handmade drawings, oil paintings, installations, albums of different kinds and measures, “memory suitcases”, DVD videos. The exhibition also includes remarkable pieces of historical and documentary research (sometimes supported by unpublished materials) realized by many institutes over the years and often linked to the history of their own local area. This intended heterogeneity testifies not only an in-depth analysis of the theme, but also a full participation, fantasy and imagination. UNIONE COMUNITÀ

EBRAICHE ITALIANE

MINISTERO DELL’ISTRUZIONE DELL‘UNIVERSITA’ E DELLA RICERCA

DIREZIONE GENERALE PER LO STUDENTE, L'INTEGRAZIONE E LA PARTECIPAZIONE