In the historical center of Naples (in Fork district) the school “IC Ristori” commemorated the day of remembrance day 26 January 2018 with an event attended by both children of primary school that boys and girls of secondary school degree, to ensure that pupils could live a moment of reflection on history, on the significance of the Holocaust, on the persecution of Jews taking into account that even today (as stated in the song by Francesco Guccini) “….still thunders the cannon…..
… and it is not content with blood the human beast” . How to behave? Living memory and hope? How to engage in our small for this to not happen again?
A particular day
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We are prepared ... They listened to interviews Peter Terracina (Roman jew then fourteen, survived the camp at Birkenau extermination), alla neosenatrice Liliana Segre, reproduced symbols, read numbers, commented poems, diary entries, viewing film clips, documentaries, drawn down, listened and learned the songs in chorus melodies trying them several times with flutes and guitar, identified locations on maps and geographical maps; have so that cooperative school workshop .
It 'was an intense work of a week or more and the result is satisfying. Emotion. Teachers wanted all that the event for Remembrance Day for the victims of the Holocaust, (attended 14 middle school classes and 8 primary school, 450 about boys), He was seen as the synthesis of a personal quest through various emotional states to each other.
If the children the story of the Holocaust was a bad story, for older history has taken a different perception: the loss of humanity. of the executioners. But the victims, because dignity, projects, values had become the absolute vacuum. disappeared.
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We stuck for an hour and a half the access road to the school and in the street in front of the entrance was set up a large space surrounded by a barbed wire, not true, but it made of a thin wire covered with gray paper with knots and spikes of silver paper. The effect was surprising since choir of children and “Nomads” together.
Some first-graders have placed barbed wire in the open space in front of the main entrance of the school children dressed in black took to the various plans sadly singing a Hebrew lullaby
| …. and they entered the enclosure; each of them wore the yellow star and pinned before entering the square, posed red paper flowers on the barbed wire while the choir was merged with that of the greatest companions, placed outside the fence. Several parents and dumb relatives, careful, They served as the fifth.
On either side of the school 8 colored panels, not the rainbow colors, but those of persecution of undesirable, useless, (Gypsies, emigrated, homosexuals, asociali, political opponents etc.…) welcomed the thoughts and reflections of the boys "great" written on post-it, some highly significant. |
Gam Gam
Gum-Gum-Gam Ki Elekh |
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They are then readings of significant songs by “If this is a man” Primo Levi and “The Diary of Anne Frank” and again choir singing
Silence, 1 minute. Long, crowded with images discovered on the internet, of painful testimonies heard, of unread documents, perceived ugliness.
Angrily shouted the song was Auschwitz, in the version of the Nomads, He preferred by the boys to the sore by Gucci because the second he could not give answers to their WHY ', the indignation, and at DISMAY, the concern of possible replies.
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Back in the classroom the average guys have seen the film "Jonah Who Lived in the Whale” (I media) and "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" (II media)
No, The guys, the greatest, some and not a few will not forget !!
Video made by students of Laboratory Videoproduction IC Ristori
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