On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2015, the Embassy of Italy with the Italian Cultural Institute and the Centro Primo Levi New York, will host an event with the welcoming remarks of H.E. Claudio Bisogniero, Ambassador of Italy to the United States, and the participation of Vadim Altskan (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum) and Marco Clementi (University of Calabria) who will comment and introduce the screening of the documentary film on the Italian Jewish Community in Rhodes during World War II, l’Isola delle Rose: la tragedia di un Paradiso (The Island of Roses: a tragedy in a Paradise), by Rebecca Samonà. The film chronicles the deportation of the Jews of Rhodes in July 1944. Marco Clementi is currently overseeing the cataloguing of the newly discovered Italian political surveillance archive in Rhodes which sheds new light on those events.

The program will also feature a special presentation of Cesare Frustaci. As a child, he was expelled from Italy in 1938 with his mother, and later survived the war and the massacre of Jews in Budapest.

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LOCATION Embassy of Italy - Auditorium 3000 Whitehaven St, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20008