Celebrated Memorial Day
Quasi 300 men, Women with children were piled on some cars of a train and transported to Auschwitz.
Was the 9 November 1943 when they were crammed into a convoy to the largest concentration camp built by the Nazis.
I have passed 74 years from deportation and this morning, on the occasion of Holocaust Remembrance Day, It was recalled by the City and the Jewish community with a ceremony on the track 16 the Santa Maria Novella station.
All’evento, which it was held in the presence of trumpets and the Banner of the City of Florence, gold medal for valor, were present among others the Head of Welfare Sara Funaro, il presidente del Consiglio regionale Eugenio Giani, the president of the Jewish Community of Florence Dario Bedarida and President of Aned Florence Alessio Ducci.
"From this platform I have started hundreds of people of the Jewish community – said Councillor Funaro -; hundreds of civilians, partisans, military, that they are gone to try to cope with mass murder. So many people have left their lives in this binary, few have returned to Florence despite there was an extraordinary solidarity network. Even in the city had formed the Jewish resistance organization Delasem to which religious and civil adhered who risked their lives to save people deported to death camps ".
"The memory goes especially to children – has continuato -: many were deported from this track and have not returned to Florence; The youngest child was Fiorella Calo, had 5 months. The deportations tragedy is remembered in many ways every day: in tombstones, in books and Florentine schools, where teachers are trying with great sensitivity to convey very strongly this memory, and in the fundamental testimonies of survivors who managed to escape from the horror of the Nazi extermination and that through their words are a bulwark of memory about what happened. Cultivate the memory is also our task because the future is based and is built on the memory of the past and the memory of this sad page in our history must serve to ensure that certain incidents never happen again ".
During his speech the commissioner Funaro read a short passage from the book 'I've been a number. Alberto Sed says' Roberto Riccardi where Alberto, survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, "He recounts the horror experienced to ensure that new generations can learn and do not forget". "We would all like the message that every witness is brought in himself and tries to pass on to others – He explained Funaro – will turn, in the words of Alberto, in an ocean of hope for our youth, because they are the ones who try to turn that pain into hope and antidote to those forms of discrimination and suffering that still unfortunately we live in the world.
Michael Lattanzi
By the number 144 – Anno IV del 25/1/2017
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