lighting candles for murdered kids helps discuss the issue of forgiveness from a more pragmatic point of view as  we will  have some knowledge, feelings ...... 

                                 Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, yet the names of close to 1.2 million remain anonymous. Since the 1950s, Yad Vashem has worked tirelessly to collect and commemorate the names of men, women and children who were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. Individuals submit handwritten Pages of Testimony in memory of loved ones, researchers painstakingly examine archival materials, and experts use the most advanced technology available to identify name after name to complete this vital task. But the work is not finished. The names of close to 1.2 million are waiting to be redeemed and time is running out. 

                  Students  have searched through the Yad Vashem database for children from Italy and then done individual research on them. The link to light a memorial candle for murdered Italian children. ........ 

                           In Italy the victims of the fascist dictatorship also included the Roma. Today, whilst historical investigation of the subject is only just beginning and has to contend with over half a century of more or less deliberate neglect and "memory lapses", we can say with certainty that the Roma were tracked down, put on file and imprisoned by the fascist government of the time. Those interned endured cold, hunger and disease which in some cases resulted in their deaths.  

                        In September 1943 Nazi troops proceeded to arrest the Jews in Gorizia and deport them to the death camps. In search of safety, the family of little Bruno Farber had moved to Ferrara, far away from all their acquaintances. A few weeks later, however, the family was arrested. They were first taken to the concentration camp of Fossoli and then deported to Auschwitz. Bruno was killed on arrival, just three months old.

The garden next to the synagogue was dedicated by the city to the memory of Bruno, the youngest Gorizia-born Jewish victim of Nazi barbarism. In 1995 at the entrance an 18th-Century wrought iron gate was installed, which had belonged to the home of Jewish linguist Graziadio Isaiah Ascoli. According to local tradition - based on the correspondence of the artefact to a description in a legal act of 1783 - this is the same gate that originally stood at the end of the ghetto near the church of San Giovanni, which had been forged by blacksmith Martin Geistin to replace the earlier wooden door.

The garden features an open-air installation created by the artist Emanuele Luzzati. The work evokes the Jewish holiday of Purim and is part of an 'environmental art' project created by the children of the elementary schools in the city.

Emilio Sacerdote
9 Jan 1893  Vibo Valentia, Catanzaro, Calabria - 1944

Place of candle: Flossenbürg, Germany

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