Perugia (PG) - The ISUC, Institute for contemporary history of Umbria, on the occasion of the celebration of the "Day of Remembrance" offers schools the province of Perugia two workshops respectively titled: "Human Rights and the Inside Out" and "The project of racist Italy (1936-1938). " These are activities during which children, through attendance of direct documentary sources of breath, general and local, are called to ask about the central issues in the history of the persecution of the Jews.
The first workshop proposes memory materials produced by three witnesses: the drawings of Helga Weissová, child of Prague which was captured in December 1941 and moved to the "City of the Jews," Terezin; fragments of the famous diary written by Anne Frank from January 1942 , date of commencement of its underground; letters of Ada Marchesini Michlstaedter, Jewish Trieste interned in the transit camp Fossoli sent to her husband before her deportation to Auschwitz in August of '44.
The second part of the historiographical assumption that the racial laws enacted by Mussolini in 1938 have had their rehearsal in the racist campaign initiated by the Ethiopian regime during the War of 1935-1936. The attention of students coming to school documents: pages of textbooks, notebook covers, circular Giuseppe Bottai, Minister of Education and the Superintendent of the Royal University of Perugia Gaetano Gasperoni.
The workshops, free of charge, will be held throughout the month of January at the headquarters dell'Isuc in Perugia, Piazza IV Novembre, 23, under the scientific responsibility of prof. Dino Renato Nardelli. Teachers who want to book, they can do so by contacting the Secretary: Dr. Sara Pedetta, tel. 075.5763094 - e.mail: pedetta.sara @ crumbria.it. Applications will be accepted in the order of submission, until exhaustion.
