Memorial Day
Track 21 from the deportation trains
the Memorial: the foundation stone
the Memorial: the foundation stone
Napolitano: "A witness who will remain as a warning"
The ceremony in the Central Station in Milan. Napolitano: "A witness who will remain as a warning"
MEMORIAL - "It will be a place of study and exchange, to discuss, understand and meditate, "said the chairman of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation Ferruccio de Bortoli. "We are here today - he added - because we want to strive to build a living memorial, not dead, it does not slip into the rhetoric." In the spaces of the east side of Central see the light of a library and a place of prayer and meditation for all expressions of religion and faith. The surface of the Memorial will expand to approximately 7 000 square meters and consists of two connected parts, but in different functions of a real memorial, given the conditions of the years between 1941 and 1945, the other party is destined to become a study center. "This facility will great importance in education for future generations, "explained Vice President of the Foundation, Roberto Jarach, who then thanked the public and private institutions that have supported the project. 'However, to complete the work-more-out investments to € 6 million. " The project of the Memorial was born in 2002. In 2007, the establishment of the Foundation dedicated in 2008 signed an agreement with the Railways for the supply of spaces below the platform 21. The obbietrtivo is to create the memorial in the same areas in which the deportations took place. Mauro Moretti, for the State Railways, said that "An area of \u200b\u200bcentral station - says Mauro Moretti, CEO of Ferrovie dello Stato - Closed and forgotten for years, back to bear witness to the worst tragedy in modern history. "
"THE DUTY OF THE WITNESS ' - President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, has turned in a message its approval for the construction of the memorial:" A work highly significant as a place to witness a tragic event that will have to always remain as a warning in the memory of future generations. " The head of state noted "with deep feeling" that the visit did three years ago in the basement of Central Station, at the point where armored trains direct to the death camps. "Sin of culpable indifference - Napolitano warned - if not adempissimo what it looks like a duty not to forget what it was in a dark season of our history. Just as we do not forget the great throng of the just Italians who, risking their own lives, helped to save many thousands of Jews, not just Italians. It was their work of redemption for our people. " Do not forget the Holocaust, and then make every effort to make this possible, still supports Napolitano, is "a high social value."
"THE DUTY OF THE WITNESS ' - President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, has turned in a message its approval for the construction of the memorial:" A work highly significant as a place to witness a tragic event that will have to always remain as a warning in the memory of future generations. " The head of state noted "with deep feeling" that the visit did three years ago in the basement of Central Station, at the point where armored trains direct to the death camps. "Sin of culpable indifference - Napolitano warned - if not adempissimo what it looks like a duty not to forget what it was in a dark season of our history. Just as we do not forget the great throng of the just Italians who, risking their own lives, helped to save many thousands of Jews, not just Italians. It was their work of redemption for our people. " Do not forget the Holocaust, and then make every effort to make this possible, still supports Napolitano, is "a high social value."
Today, January 27, 2011, the site is back again, there is an important economic problem, missing about € 5.5 million to 9 (over the years, among other things, the cost is leavened a lot), City of Milan, Lombardy Region and the Province of Milan have been meeting at the Jewish community of Milan (CEM), but the road is still long.
At the presentation yesterday morning, the President of the Foundation of the Holocaust Memorial Ferruccio De Bortoli, after thanking individuals who have spoken with donations, said " the memorial also serves to deliver a non- worse future for our children " and called the place" become a symbol of interfaith dialogue. "
The design of the memorial covers an area of \u200b\u200b7,000 m² on two floors, ground floor and basement. It starts with the Hall of Records, with the voices of survivors and continue with the telescope of Discrimination with projections on the move. Then you get to the area of \u200b\u200bopen wagons, the track called Destination unknown to conclude with the Wall of Names, always and everywhere a symbol of the tragedy of the Holocaust.
Planned a fundraiser, need the help of all citizens, institutions, foundations, civil society and industry, in three working days from when the subscription is gone, have been deposited on a specific current account € 7638 (for those wishing to contribute here = the bank of the Holocaust Memorial Foundation ONLUS, Milan at San Paolo Intesa SpA - IBAN IT03V0306901672100000000605). To increase the revenue is very likely, although not yet certain, to be organized in the coming months at a charity auction whose proceeds will be used to finance the memorial of the Holocaust.