Over 60 events and the laying of 27 new stumbling blocks in front of the homes of those deported by the fascist regime.
This is how Milan celebrates Remembrance Day which will be held on January 27th with a series of events presented by the mayor Giuseppe Sala and LilianaSegre.
That day, the senator for life will receive an honorary degree in Historical Sciences at the State University of Milan, for her extraordinary testimony on the Shoah and for her commitment against all forms of anti-Semitism, racism and intolerance.
There are 26 new stumbling blocks that will be laid and which, in addition to the almost 200 that are already scattered around the city, will form a mosaic of memory dedicated to the Milanese men, women, boys and girls who died in the extermination camps.
Among them Jews, political opponents, male and female workers, entire families.
The first 13 stones will be laid by the Municipality of Milan and the Stumbling Stones Committee on the morning of Thursday 25 January.
A further 13 will be placed on 7 March, in the week in which the strikes that began in 1944 in Milan and Turin and in other Italian cities will be remembered against the war that was trying the population hard and to stop war production.
The stories of these Milanese people will be told, for the benefit of the younger generations, in five podcasts entitled 'Vocisilenziose', the first episode of which will be online on the channels of the European Institute of Design and the Committee on 27 January.
Among the stumbling blocks that will be laid there are also those dedicated to a mother and daughter who were both deported, Lea Behar and her daughter Sara Dana, both who died in Auschwitz.
On Remembrance Day, the Municipality of Milan will make public the geo-map of the Jewish population registered in Milan in 1938, based on the documentation contained in the Israelites Fund preserved at the Citadel of Archives.
The map will be available for consultation throughout January 27th.
A symbolic place and cornerstone of the city's memory, the Shoah Memorial in Edmond Safra 1 square will be open all day on January 27th with free visits.
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