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 …
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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 …
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 …
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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? …
Recreation “Gernika that spring”
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Gernika Peace Museum (2018), on 8 April, a recreation was held in Gernika (Foru plaza, opposite the museum) organised by the Gernika Peace Museum …
History on the Move. From Fossoli to Mauthausen 2018-2019
The educational project “History on the Move: From Fossoli to Mauthausen”, promoted by the Fossoli Foundation with the support of …