Italy and Germany together to pay homage to the martyrs of the Fosse Ardeatine. This morning, March 24, on the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the massacre, the German Minister for Culture and Media Claudia Roth and the minister of culture Gennaro Sangiuliano they went to the Fosse Ardeatine Mausoleum to lay a wreath of flowers in front of the plaque commemorating the massacre. An appointment also attended by the Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida and the general Diego Paulet.
Then the visit to the Portico d’Ottavia, the Synagogue and the Jewish Museum, where the ministers Roth and Sangiuliano laid a wreath of flowers. The chief rabbi of Rome welcomed them, Riccardo Di Segnithe president of the Jewish Community of Rome, Victor Fadlunthe president of the Shoah Museum Foundation, Mario Veneziathe president of the Foundation for the Jewish Museum of Rome, Alessandra Di Castroand the councilors of the Jewish Community for institutional relations, Alessandro Luzonto international relations, Johanna Arbiband to Memory, Daniele Regard.
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by Gabriella Cerami
“Eighty years ago the Fosse Ardeatine massacre took place: 335 people, including soldiers and civilians and many citizens of Jewish religion, were massacred by the Nazi occupation troops with the ferocious collaboration of the fascists. In my memory, I believe that three ministers, including a German one, have never gone together to the Fosse Ardeatine shrine. Memory is fundamental for the rejection of evil to take root in consciences,” declared Sangiuliano.
“I thank my fraternal friends of the Jewish community for welcoming us in a tragic moment in which, after the attack on 7 October, the demon of anti-Semitism reappears. Despite the tragedy of the events recalled, they were positive moments of moral reconstruction”, added the minister.
Fosse ardeatine, “That day when dad was arrested…” Voices and tears
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“I find myself here in this place full of pain, of mourning, of shame. The Fosse Ardeatine massacre shows all the cruelty and brutality of Nazi Germany’s occupation regime in Italy,” Roth specified. “Germany – he continued – is aware of its full historical responsibility towards Italy and Europe today. We must not consider this chapter closed, we must and want to remember. Remember for the future.”
The minister then concluded by underlining that Italy and Germany together must “fight in Europe with determination against anti-Semitism, racism, hostility towards Muslims and any form of hatred towards certain groups of people”.
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