Today January 27, 2009 participate in the commemoration of the victims of National Socialism ( Nazism) and fascism, 's Holocaust and in honor of those who risking their lives protected the persecuted.
It was 1945, the vanguard of the Red Army opened the gates of the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, near Krakow, and freed the survivors or rather what was left of the survivors of mass extermination, known to all as "shoah ", or total destruction. At Auschwitz, and in concentration camps neighbors, they found death, killed in gas chambers or from starvation, four million men, women and children. Almost all Jews. But they were also exterminated Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, political opponents and other "enemies" of the Thousand Year Reich. Overall, the victims of the Shoah, or Holocaust, was about six milioni.La "Memorial Day" was established by the Italian Parliament in 2000 to remember. The memory is a must. You owe it to people who were victims of a sleek design of extermination, to a civilization that tried to eradicate the European consciousness, which had also given over the centuries an extraordinary contribution. But memory is also a duty to younger generations to whom we must transmit the awareness and knowledge of the past, why are not deprived of that moral heritage that is represented by the continuity of human history. It is imperative that the institutions, schools should cultivate in young people a respect for the dignity of every umano.Sono many ways to remember. You can do it watching a movie, like the one signed by Oscar winner Roberto Benigni's "Life is Beautiful" or the more recent "The Boy with the Striped Pajamas" by Mark Herman that tells the story of two boys whose lives are marked and separated by barbed wire, or the "Diary of Anne Frank." Or it would be enough to re-read "If This Is a Man "by Primo Levi, who experienced firsthand the horrors of the camps and, lucky survivor, wanted to show its experience in concentration camp Auschwitz of .
It was 1945, the vanguard of the Red Army opened the gates of the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, near Krakow, and freed the survivors or rather what was left of the survivors of mass extermination, known to all as "shoah ", or total destruction. At Auschwitz, and in concentration camps neighbors, they found death, killed in gas chambers or from starvation, four million men, women and children. Almost all Jews. But they were also exterminated Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, political opponents and other "enemies" of the Thousand Year Reich. Overall, the victims of the Shoah, or Holocaust, was about six milioni.La "Memorial Day" was established by the Italian Parliament in 2000 to remember. The memory is a must. You owe it to people who were victims of a sleek design of extermination, to a civilization that tried to eradicate the European consciousness, which had also given over the centuries an extraordinary contribution. But memory is also a duty to younger generations to whom we must transmit the awareness and knowledge of the past, why are not deprived of that moral heritage that is represented by the continuity of human history. It is imperative that the institutions, schools should cultivate in young people a respect for the dignity of every umano.Sono many ways to remember. You can do it watching a movie, like the one signed by Oscar winner Roberto Benigni's "Life is Beautiful" or the more recent "The Boy with the Striped Pajamas" by Mark Herman that tells the story of two boys whose lives are marked and separated by barbed wire, or the "Diary of Anne Frank." Or it would be enough to re-read "If This Is a Man "by Primo Levi, who experienced firsthand the horrors of the camps and, lucky survivor, wanted to show its experience in concentration camp Auschwitz of .
Mark Mangano
