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.
events
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.