January 27 is the Day of Memory, established by the Italian Parliament with the law n.211 of 20 July 2000.
The date was chosen as the anniversary of the demolition of the gates of Auschwitz which took place in 1945, in "remembrance of the Shoah, the extermination of the Jewish people, the racial laws, the Italian persecution of Jewish citizens, the Italians who suffered deportation, imprisonment, death, as well as those who, even in different camps and alignments, opposed the extermination project, and at the risk of their own lives saved other lives and protected the persecuted”.
The aim of the day is "to preserve in the future of Italy the memory of a tragic and dark period of history in our country and in Europe, and so that similar events can never happen again".
The Management participates again this year in the Memorial Day sharing online some images of documents restored at theCentral Institute for Archives and Book Pathology (ICPAL) (ICPAL). The documents come from the ITS International Tracing Service (Today Arolsen Archives International Center on Nazi Persecution) of Bad Arolsen in Germany; documentation, information and research center on Nazi persecutions, the Holocaust and deported persons.
Part of the documents present in the Institute was the subject of the thesis in Conservation and restoration of cultural heritage (PFP5) titled Lives further. Documents and humanity behind a barbed wire that changed history, discussed in the November 2021 session by Dr. Sara Belligno at the ICPAL Higher Education and Study School.
These are official deeds, private documents and passport photos of deportees, for a total of 430 units, from the Flossembürg concentration camp, where prisoners of war, "asocial", homosexuals, political prisoners and Jews were held.
The purpose of ICPAL is to conserve books and documents with the aim of preserving written memory in the future.
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Photos of documents and restoration operations by Sara Belligno
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