EuroClio, International Book Day, April 23rd

Books Not Bombs: Rebuilding Education During War. Whilst the war is raging in Ukraine, a group of educators are working to continue the education reform they strongly believe in.

Fundación Museo de la Paz de Gernika – The bombing of Gernika, 26 April 1937

The people of Guernica experienced the ravages of the Spanish Civil War from the outset, although during the first few months the war campaign did not drastically alter the atmosphere in the town.

Fondazione Fossoli – Liberation Day of Italy, 25 de abril

In Italy, 25 April is the Liberation Day of Italy from Nazism, a commemoration that remembers and honours the struggle against fascist rule and Nazi occupation during the Second World War.

Commemoration of the raid on the Colonie d’Izieu Colony, 6 April

80 years ago, in April 1943, Sabine and Miron Zlatin opened the “Colonie des enfants réfugiés de l’Hérault”. For almost a year, more than a hundred Jewish children from all over Europe were taken in at the Maison d’Izieu to escape racist and anti-Semitic persecution. Sixty-one of them were saved.

European Observatory on Memories – International Women’s Day, 8 March

On August 12, 1944, the Nazis entered the Italian town of Sant’anna di Stazzema, located in the Apuan Alps, and murdered 560 residents and refugees, mostly women, girls, and boys.

Maison d’Izieu – International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, 27 January

This highly symbolic date corresponds to the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp on 27 January 1945. In 2023, at Maison d’Izieu, a tribute is paid to the 44 children and 7 educators of the camp who were victims of the nazi raid on 6 April 1944. ©Maison d’Izieu.