Demetrio Paolin: Conforme alla gloria/ In conformance with glory

#InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay #lestweforget Conforme alla Gloria: Una giornata normaleDemetrio Paolin     La pelle ha una strana caratteristica. Quando l’ago, uno spillo minuscolo che lacera solamente lo strato più superficiale, le entra dentro, essa trattiene come una spugna l’inchiostro che viene rilasciato. Quando Enea infila l’ago nella spalla del giovane, vede la pelle colorarsi poco alla…Read more Demetrio Paolin: Conforme alla gloria/ In conformance with glory

#LilianaSegre: 90 years old today. This is her story. #Lestweforget the horrors man is capable of

Liliana Segre:Le più belle frasi   Temo di vivere abbastanza per vedere cose che pensavo la Storia avesse definitivamente bocciato, invece erano solo sopite.  Liliana Segre: The most beautiful passages   I’m afraid I will live long enough to see the things I thought History had definitely quashed and which were, instead only dormant.Coltivare la…Read more #LilianaSegre: 90 years old today. This is her story. #Lestweforget the horrors man is capable of

On fascism: Pertini, Bobbio, Bassani, Calvino, Pasolini, Gramsci, Calamandrei…

"The twenty years of fascism was not, as some unmindful wretch would like to think, twenty years of order and national greatness: it was twenty years of disgraceful illegality, humiliation, moral corrosion, daily suffocation, silent and subterranean moral disgregation." - Piero Calamandrei Sandro Pertini Il fascismo per me non può essere considerato una fede politica.…Read more On fascism: Pertini, Bobbio, Bassani, Calvino, Pasolini, Gramsci, Calamandrei…

Liliana Segre: In Auschwitz at thirteen #LestWeForget

"The trip to Auschwitz – very few speak about it because very few came back – is one of the most terrible chapters of the Shoah. Mine lasted six days, and for six days this humanity lived hoarded in the freight car with its misery, with its bodily functions, with its smell of sweat, of…Read more Liliana Segre: In Auschwitz at thirteen #LestWeForget