Stories of Jewish Architects and Engineers victims of the racial laws in Bologna
For the first time live and in full, 21:00 at the Serre dei Giardini Margherita in Bologna.
Speakers will include Daniele Vincenzi, Pier Giorgio Giannelli, Andrea Gnudi, Daniele De Paz and Davide Rizzo.
To attend, in accordance with current regulations it is necessary to hold a green pass and pre-register at this link.
Free event open to all interested parties.
The documentary stems from a collaboration between the Order of Architects, the Order of Engineers and the Jewish Community of Bologna in mid-2019, following a number of initiatives carried out in recent years by the Orders of Architects of Milan and Rome, through which the issue of the consequences of the anti-Jewish laws on architects was brought to light, perhaps for the first time.
The promulgation of the anti-Jewish laws is perhaps the darkest chapter in our history since the Unification of Italy, which had instead happily opened with the enactment of the Albertine Statute, granting full citizenship, civil and political rights to people of the Jewish religion.
The documentary "Letters from the Archive" describes what these laws meant for architects and engineers of Jewish origin, through the stories of some of them whose memory we preserve in our archives. Stories of people marked by these measures, the consequences of which often extended well beyond the time limit of the war.
Stories like these are not isolated cases, and this is what we wanted to talk about in our documentary, to do something that we believe is right, namely to come to terms with our not always glorious past: in fact, for too long we deluded ourselves into being a nation of "good people". That was not the case, at least not for everyone, and the fact that we have not been able to collectively and thoroughly confront this painful and shameful page of the past, as has instead been done in other European countries, has reflected up to the present day, in which we witness denials, trivialisations and relativisations of what was done during the twenty-year fascist period, pandering to certain disintegrative nationalist pushes underway for some years in our country.
This small contribution of ours is for those who do not remember and for those who do not know what unfortunately happened in those years in Italy and also in Bologna, but above all it is for the children in schools, for those who will be the citizens of tomorrow, with the wish to foster in them a full awareness of what was, to avert the possibility that similar things might happen again in the future.