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The symbolic places of the darkest history so as not to forget

2022-01-26T18:10:54.915Z


For the Day of Remembrance from Auschwitz to Fossoli (ANSA) massacre and testify how important memory is to fight against all forms of discrimination and racism. Cemeteries, celebratory monuments, concentration camps, trains: everything has been transformed into museums, places of memory to be known in order not to forget and not repeat the horror of the past.     The barbed wire, the gate with the inscription "Arbeit macht frei", the ghostly railway track


massacre and testify how important memory is to fight against all forms of discrimination and racism.

Cemeteries, celebratory monuments, concentration camps, trains: everything has been transformed into museums, places of memory to be known in order not to forget and not repeat the horror of the past.


    The barbed wire, the gate with the inscription "Arbeit macht frei", the ghostly railway track can still be seen in the Auschwitz concentration camp, where you can also visit a well-documented library, block 11 with several cells and a gas chamber. If Auschwitz was a prison camp, the nearby Birkenau concentration camp, just 4 kilometers away, was born only to exterminate: here more than one million and one hundred thousand Jews, Russians, Poles, prisoners of war, homosexuals, political opponents and gypsies from from all over Europe. In this camp you can visit the infirmary, the barracks, the ramp where the train arrived, the gas chambers, the mass graves and the watchtower.


    60 kilometers away is another evocative place of memory: the Kazimierz Jewish district of Krakow where, among others, Oskar Schindler's enamel factory is located, today transformed into an interesting museum that recalls the years under Nazi occupation and honors the memory of the businessman who saved more than a thousand Jews from the concentration camp, employing some prisoners as workers.

Traveling for almost 400 kilometers you arrive in Warsaw, in whose ghetto the Polin museum tells the life of the Polish Jewish community, from the 10th century to the present day.


    It is Germany that holds the largest number of places of memory: the most significant is the Holocaust memorial, a field of steles designed by the architect Peter Eisenmann in the heart of the Mitte district of Berlin, exactly in the area occupied by the hierarch's building Nazi Joseph Goebbels.

The monument, one of the best-known memorial sites in the world, is made up of nearly 3,000 stone blocks commemorating the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis.

Also in the German capital is the Jewish museum which tells the story of the German Jewish community, from the Middle Ages to the Shoah;

designed by Daniel Libeskind, from above it has the symbolic shape of a broken Star of David.

In the Grunewald train station is the Gleis 17 Memorial, a monument located at platform 17,


    Another famous place of memory is the Anne Frank house-museum in Amsterdam: it stands in the place where the young German Jewish girl hid with her family from the Nazi roundups. Died in a concentration camp, the young woman became a symbol of the Holocaust for her diary, made public after the war ended. Finally, the Memorial of the Shoah in Paris deserves to be known, which since 1943 has collected documents and political testimonies useful for historical investigations, including the Nuremberg trial.


    the deportation began.

The stumbling blocks are over 300 - 22 thousand worldwide - scattered in many areas of the city.


    Under the Central Station of Milan stands the Memorial Foundation of the Shoah-Track 21, the place from where the convoys loaded with Jews and other persecuted to the Nazi extermination camps left.

The Memorial testifies to the lives of thousands of prisoners who passed through it between 1943 and 1945, including life senator Liliana Segre, who survived Auschwitz.

To testify the horrors in the concentration camps there is also the Museum of the deportee of Fossoli, near Carpi, in the province of Modena;

Famous men of culture also passed through it, including the writer Primo Levi.

In Trieste, the national monument Risiera di San Sabba, from a structure for the husking of rice to a detention camp, is now a museum that testifies to the tragic story of Italian soldiers, partisans,


    The largest fascist concentration camp in Italy is located in Tarsia, in the province of Cosenza;

here since 1940, Italian and foreign Jews, anti-fascists and political refugees were imprisoned.

Since 2004 the concentration camp, closed in 1945, has been transformed into the museum of the Ferramonti memory.

Finally, in Servigliano, in the Marche region, an old prison camp where opponents, refugees, prisoners of war and Jews were incarcerated in the Fascist period has become the Parco della Pace;

next to it was born the museum-house of Memory.

(HANDLE).


Source: ansa

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