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Trieste and Memory
"I will never forget all this, even if I were condemned to live as long as God himself. Never." The final line of the poem "Never Forget" by Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner, forcefully recalls the duty of remembrance. On the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Teatro Stabile del Friuli Venezia Giulia presents Trieste and Memory – A Journey into the City, a project curated by Paolo Valerio with dramaturgy by Paola Pini. An itinerary through symbolic places and historical testimonies, performed by Emanuele Fortunati, Ester Galazzi, Riccardo Maranzana, Francesco Migliaccio, Jacopo Morra, and Maria Grazia Plos. Tuesday, January 27,...
Andra and Tatiana Bucci, sisters from Fiume who survived Auschwitz
On the occasion of the Day of Remembrance, which this year coincides with the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp (27 January 1945), the Multimedia Documentation Centre of the Julian, Istrian, Rijeka and Dalmatian culture shares a film made by the Italian Community of Rijeka. It is an interview by Gianfranco Miksa with Andra and Tatiana Bucci, two sisters from Rijeka who both survived the Auschwitz concentration camp, which they entered at the ages of 4 and 6, respectively. On the YouTube channel of the Italian Community of Rijeka, the two witnesses of the Shoah recount their tragic experience as prisoners, from the beginning...
The Jews in Gorizia, Istria and Dalmatia: a story of coexistence and sharing
Continuing in the wake of a fruitful cultural collaboration that began in recent years, the provincial committee of Rome of the National Association of Venezia Giulia and Dalmatia organized a conference dedicated to the Day of Remembrance at the Casa del Ricordo (a structure that it manages on behalf of Roma Capitale together with the Società di Studi Fiumani), involving as speaker Claudio Procaccia (opening photo), Director of the Department of Cultural Heritage and Activities of the Jewish Community of Rome. “The Jews in Venezia Giulia and the Eastern Adriatic: coexistence and sharing” is the topic that was discussed on Thursday 3 February: the conference is visible...
The memory of Marcel Tyberg and Prof. Enrico Mihich, exile from Fiume
Marcel Tyberg was a musician of Polish Jewish origins (Tee-berg) born in Vienna on January 27, 1893, who was eliminated in the Nazi extermination camp of Auschwitz on December 31, 1944. Tyberg from Vienna to Abbazia (Fiume) Marcel Tyberg came from a family of musicians, studied music from a very young age and had the opportunity to frequent the virtuoso violinist Jan Kubelik in Vienna and to become friends with another violinist, later conductor of the Viennese orchestra Rodolfo Lipizer. In 1916 the Tyberg family, in the midst of the world conflict, moved from Vienna to Abbazia, a splendid seaside tourist resort a few kilometers from Fiume and known as the “pearl...
Remembrance Day is not a contrast to the Shoah
Regarding the statements of the Rector of the University for Foreigners of Siena, Prof. Tomaso Montanari, it is sad to note that the history of the eastern border is always interpreted in the context of fascism and the political attack on the right, forgetting centuries of Italian presence, history, culture and tradition on the coasts of the eastern Adriatic, as well as the adhesion to the Risorgimento of native ruling classes and volunteers. Even the history of art, a discipline that Montanari teaches, shows that the coasts of the eastern Adriatic have maintained a deep cultural and identity bond with the Italian peninsula over the centuries, in terms of commissions and artists who...
