Meeting with Jordan Mechner

After a guided tour of the house which deeply moved him, the designer of the famous video game Prince of Persia, Jordan Mechner …

Symposium “Mothers in the Holocaust”

How can we define the loss of a child in a context of genocide or political violence ? What did Jewish mothers experience during the Holocaust ? …

Seminars abroad

Each year, the Maison d’Izieu organises in partnership with Yad Vashem (Israel) and Auschwitz (Poland) training seminars …

Transitions of memory. Narratives of violence in the 20th and 21st centuries

The conference Transitions of memory continues the activities of the Fossoli Foundation Study Centre along the lines of the previous…

Beyond the Witness. Primo Levi and the Statute of Testimony

On the occasion of the centenary of Primo Levi’s birth, the Fossoli Foundation aims to initiate a reflection on his role as a witness and the influence his work has had in shaping …

International Conference: Sites of Transit in Europe from WW2 to the present. History, Spaces, Memories

Moving from the historical experience of Fossoli, during the conference Italian and International scholars of History, Philosophy, Architecture …

Online Digital platform information

How could we portray what has disappeared, what is no longer there, what is absent and has been erased by time? How to explain horror, a trauma whose description only in words will never do it justice? …

Seminar Bombings in Euskadi

Months before the military coup, the rebels had already requested military aid from Mussolini and after the coup from Hitler.

International Seminar about Historical Memory: Deliberate Amnesia of memory

This seminar was part of the exhibition Historical Memory, graphic reportage of the bitter aftermath of Franco’s regime …