Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Hours: 6pm

Venue: NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo', 24 West 12th Street

Organized by: Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimo'

In collaboration with: ICI, Consulate general of Italy in New York, Centro Primo Levi, Italian Academy, CUNY's John Calandra Italian American Institute.
Film Screening: Oro Macht Frei (2013) by Jeffrey Bonna and Catherine Campbell
Opening remarks: Stefano Albertini. Post screening discussion: Catherine Campbell

On January 27, 1945 the Soviet Army entered and liberated the extermination camp of Auschwitz.
This date was chosen to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and to promote the fight against racism and any kind of persecution. Following the efforts of the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research, an intergovernmental organization founded in Sweden in 1998, January 27 was established in Germany and France to remember the victims of Fascism and Nazism.

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Source: http://www.iicnewyork.esteri.it/