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Holocaust Remembrance Day: A public reflection twenty-five years after

13.01.2025

The University of Padua's Center for the History of Resistance and Contemporary Age is organizing an event on January 27 at Palazzo del Bo (Aula Magna) to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day.
During the event, Gadi Luzzatto Voghera, president of the Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center Foundation (Milan), will deliver a keynote lecture, and the Trio Hegel will perform several musical pieces.

At the end of the last century, historiographical reflection began on the significance of the persecution and extermination of Jews in the history of the European continent. The end of the bipolar world order, combined with the discovery of new documentation and the advent of the "era of the witness," contributed to legislative outcomes that produced new and unprecedented memory policies. A quarter of a century later, given profound changes in the political, social, and cultural spheres, it may be possible to take stock of this experience and hypothesize plausible and feasible prospects.

Participation in the event is free.

It is also possible to follow the meeting online on the University of Padua's YouTube channel.