Holocaust Foundation to host day of remembrance

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

ROME - A day of remembrance to show solidarity against the numerous neo-fascist threats made to journalists and reporters and to commemorate the tragedy of the Holocaust, an initiative together with the Jewish Community of Rome, is to be held Friday, the Roman Press Association reported.

 The event comes in response to recent incidents of anti-Semitic behaviour in Rome. The resurgence of intimidation, acts of vandalism and neo-fascist aggression that have targeted reporters and various members of the press, must remind everyone that “what happened can happen again.”

 In December, the Insider reported the theft of twenty bronze bricks funded by Rome’s Jewish Community dedicated to Holocaust victims from a Roman street overnight. This hateful act provoked extreme public outrage and disgust (https://www.italianinsider.it/?q=node/7518).

 The Insider later reported another incident which occurred earlier in January when two journalists were attacked and threatened by members of neo-fascist groups while reporting on a memorial service held for the Acca Larentia killings (https://www.italianinsider.it/?q=node/7573).

 In anticipation of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day Sunday, the National Federation of the Italian Press (FNSI), along with the Union of Rai Journalists (USIGRai), Article 21 and the Order of Journalists of Lazio, will meet with the Jewish Community of Rome Friday from 10 to 11 at the Foundation Museum of the Holocaust, in Via del Portico d’Ottavia.

 The delegates will be received by the president and spokesperson of the Roman Jewish Community, Ruth Dureghello and Daniel Funaro, and by the president of the Foundation Museum of the Holocaust, Mario Venezia.

 Senator Furio Colombo, one of the promoters of the law to establish the day of remembrance in commemoration of the extermination and persecution of the Jewish people and of the Italian military and political deportees in Nazi camps, will also intervene.