On 27 January 1945 troops Soviet Red Army during the offensive in the direction of Berlin, arrived in the Polish town known as Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp discovering and releasing the few survivors.
The date of the gates of Auschwitz has been chosen worldwide as the "Day of Remembrance" to commemorate one of the blackest pages of history. The Library of
Castelgomberto This year has also prepared other materials on this theme, focusing particularly on events in our area. For example, how many know that there was a concentration camp in the provincial Tonezza?
Here are some excerpts from the book "The few things. The Jews interned in the province of Vicenza 1941-1945" Paul Tagini.
"With Italy's entry into World War II, the fascist authorities predisposero internment for citizens belonging to sati enemies. Among the thousands of people affected by this measure were also included foreigners of" Jewish race "then present in Kingdom and in the territories occupied in the meantime the Italian army.
internment civil materialized of imprisonment in concentration camps or obligation to house arrest.
The province of Vicenza was involved.
A circular from the Ministry of the Interior thought it appropriate to "get people home with forced" the common Arzignano, Bassano, Montecchio Maggiore and Roanoke for their location and environmental situation. To these were added many others.
(.. .) Vicenza in 28 municipalities between 1941 and 1943 were forced to house arrest 600 Jews.
After the armistice of 8 September 1943, were created in northern new concentration camps to intern Jews who ended up sealed on the trains Direct in Poland. Among those fields there was a colony, "Umberto I" of Tonezza where furono tenute prigioniere 45 persone dal destino segnato.
(...) I giorni nella colonia, pochi ufficialmente, devono essere stati i più lunghi ed estenuanti per gli ebrei sospesi tra la speranza di una notizia o di una decisione che potesse cambiare il loro stato e la certezza che il nuovo corso della Repubblica Sociale, unito alla presenza dei tedeschi sul territorio italiano, non li avrebbe condotti su altra strada che su quella dei campi della Polonia.
(...) Il 30 Gennaio 1944 arrivò a Tonezza un pulmann, gli internati furono caricati alla volta di Vicenza(...)Nessuno dei 42 ebrei partiti il 30 Gennaio e giunti ad Auschwitz il 6 Febbraio è sopravvissuto."
Anche Mario Rigoni Stern ricorda gli internati ebrei nel racconto "The abandoned sawmill"
"Where they had been concentrated was an old sawmill in use for several years and there in the fifties and most Jews were arranged as best in affinity groups for family members or language .(...) Little by little, avoiding the sergeant and ignoring the secretary of the beam, get a feeling for the families who lived on the outskirts of the country or in isolated houses on the land; helped saw wood for the winter, to collect the potatoes, keep the cattle out to pasture when the children resumed school. In return for these services had potatoes and milk, as well as Gino, the baker in the country which played the violin in the attic and dance parties, and that was after one of the first be partisan and for twenty months he mad Germans and Fascists burlesque companies, managed somehow to get them some delicious bread to help pull the life .(...) The war seemed a distant thing for the old and wise lawyer Lederer was pleased that this pause of his tormented life and every afternoon he went to take a lesson from the Italian master of Catherine because she wanted to read Dante. It was not long for someone more daring not even returned to the sawmill to spend the night in short, when it was New Year (...) some here, some there, all our Jews had found a house that hosts them .(...) The evening of 8 September, the radio transmitted the news and the morning of the first nine were from the North commanders without troops, saying that the Germans were coming up the steps as in past centuries. The 10 days was never seen again any jew wandering around the country (...) In a small village in the mountains remained Venetian their memory. In the winter evenings in the pub, I heard of them. But there are many more, now, to remember, and even many in the village know that the roof of the Church is still the one adjusted by Gunter, that so many gutters are (...) But his work in memory of countries and cities , plains and mountains, moors and forests of eastern Europe, for what I saw and experienced I wanted to browse through dusty old records and read their names for you. "
amid much suffering, stand also stories of courage and altruism, such as those of Giorgio Perlasca or Don Michele Carlotto, both named "Righteous Among the Nations".
Don Michael, then chaplain at Valley, acted in person in particular by helping two young Jewish brothers and their mother.
so saved the lives of this family.
Giorgio Perlasca however, in Budapest in the winter of 1944-45 succeeded in saving thousands of Hungarian Jews inventing fictitious role of the English Consul. He returned to Italy to end the conflict, tells his story to anyone simply because considers that it has only done his duty. Hungarian women are saved by him to find him and to discover its history.
When asked why he had done, he replied simply: "Are you having the opportunity to qualcosa, cosa avrebbe fatto vedendo uomini, donne e bambini massacrati senza un motivo se non l'odio e la violenza?"
Oltre a queste testimonianze e storie incredibili, è disponibile anche una bibliografia, che potete trovare a questo link:
http://bibliocastelgomb.altervista.org/bibl_G_Memoria_2010_A4.doc
Per l'occasione l'Associazione Agorà organizza una serata di letture sulla memoria Venerdì 28 Gennaio alle ore 20.30 presso la Sala Foscola di Palazzo Barbaran intitolata " il Canto di Ulisse ".
Pensieri, musiche, suoni, immagini e letture per una commemorazione della Shoah. Un appuntamento per approfondire, capire e ascoltare le parole di chi ha vissuto and recounted the tragedy.
"Now more than ever, it is necessary that young people know, understand and understand: it is the only way to hope it is indicated that horror is not repeated, is the only way to get us out of darkness."
The silence of the living - Elisa Springer
All material is available at our Library.
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