The Holocaust in Italian Collective Memory: Il giorno della memoria, 27 January 2001

Author:

Gordon Robert S. C.

Abstract

The article examines the first official, national Holocaust memorial day in Italy, the so-called Giorno della memoria (Day of memory), marked on the 56th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on 27 January 2001. It looks at the ways in which the day acted as a filter for issues of national collective memory and identity, in particular state and public negotiation of the legacy of Fascism, as well as addressing broader issues of Holocaust remembrance. The article looks first at the origins of the Giorno della memoria in political and in legislative terms. Then it sketches in the events of the day itself, at national and local levels, in political, educational and cultural terms. This is followed by an analysis of media coverage and contemporary commentary, showing how various lines of interpretation addressed general issues related to the Holocaust and specifically Italian historical, ideological and contemporary questions.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Sociology and Political Science,History,Anthropology,Cultural Studies

Reference155 articles.

1. Senator Athos De Luca (Greens) had been the law's main sponsor in the Senate.

2. The phrase ‘Day of Remembrance’ had appeared in the Stockholm Declaration. There was a certain variety in phraseology in the press coverage, from ‘Giornata della memoria’ (various newpapers) to ‘Giorno del ricordo’ (La Stampa) to the more specific ‘Giorno della Shoah’ used by La Repubblica in its highly Judaic pagehead logo on 27 and 28 January (‘Giorno della Shoah’ accompanied by a Star of David and a menorah). Corriere della Sera's logo, by contrast, consisted of two undulating pieces of barbed wire, representing deportation and the concentration camps in a more generalised and generic way.

3. For a summary of memorials and legislative arrangements, see http://www1.yadvashem.org/education/ceremonies/liberation/map/map.htm (retrieved 31 January 2005).

4. See insert in listings, La Repubblica , 26 January 2001.

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