The Fossoli Camp between Memory and Project
Contemporary Architecture as a Tool for the Conservation and Enhancement of Site Memory.
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Workshop European Project SPEME (Spaces of Memory)
Transmitting Memory to (Very) Young Generations. An Experiment with the Children of Federzoni Primary School in Bologna
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…
The children of Izieu’s magic lantern
Accompanied by the young cook of the Children’s Home Philippe Dehan, who passed on his passion for cinema, the children of Izieu …
77th Anniversary of the Massacre of the 67 Martyrs of Fossoli
On July 12, 1944, 67 political prisoners, taken from the nearby concentration camp of Fossoli, were massacred by the Nazi SS …
The Heritage of a Transit Camp Fossoli: History, Memory Aesthetics (Peter Lang, 2021)
Linking together the history of the Holocaust, the resistance to Nazi-Fascism and the political and civic commitment that inspired the birth …
Educational workshop “Justice and remembrance : the trials and the roundup of Izieu (Nuremberg, Bourdon, Barbie)”
The educational workshop “Justice and remembrance” is proposed to final year A level students who follow the History-Geography-Geopolotics-Political science course.
Online educational material: The bombing of Gernika
If we turn the clock back 85 years, we can listen to the survivors of the bombing of Gernika and see the images of the destruction it caused …
Cartoons to remember
The exhibition Cartoons to remember is the result of in-depth research done by historians Txema Uriarte and Aline Soberón …
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 …
Frida and the others: Stories of Women, War History – Fossoli 1944
The exhibition highlights faces and stories that passed through the Fossoli Camp: the faces of women who lived through World War II.
Workshop SPEME 2019. Difficult Memories and Teaching for Adolescents
The Workshop of the European Project SPEME (Space of Memory) focuses on methodologies for approaching the understanding of challenging memories …