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Holocaust education: How Italian students remember the Shoah through art
Each year in September, all schools are encouraged to produce a project, especially by using art. Hundreds of thousands of students have participated in the annual contest over the past 20 years.
Updated: 10:12 PM PDT Oct 27, 2024
KCRA 3’s new documentary “Always Remember Your Name” follows one of the world’s youngest Holocaust survivors, Andra Bucci, as she travels around the world to share her story with new generations of students.Born in Italy, Bucci now lives in the Sacramento area and recently became a U.S. citizen. To her, telling the story over and over again is important to make sure something like the Holocaust doesn’t happen again.Watch our “Always Remember Your Name” documentary here.KCRA 3 joined Bucci on a recent trip to Italy and Poland as she accompanied Italian students who were selected to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, which Bucci and her sister survived.According to Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, 7,680 out of 44,500 Italian Jews were killed in the Holocaust. While in Italy, our documentary team met Noemi Di Segni, who has been the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities since 2016. Under Italian law, the union formally represents Italy’s 25,000 Jews. Di Segni said that there is no requirement that students take exams about the Holocaust but that for two decades now her organization has had a special agreement with the ministry of education to work with schools to preserve the memory of the Shoah, the Hebrew word for the Holocaust, beginning in fifth grade through high school.Each year in September, all schools are encouraged to produce a project, especially by using art. Hundreds of thousands of students have participated in the annual contest over the past 20 years, she said. (See examples of the art below.)See more works created by students for the competition here.“Our approach is not to teach only the Shoah, but to make the program integrated into Jewish culture. We don’t want the message to be only that Jews were persecuted,” Di Segni said. “It is important for students to understand that the group was part of the Italian culture.”Winners of the contest are invited to a special ceremony at Italy’s presidential palace on Jan. 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which marks the liberation of Auschwitz. About 100 students at a time are also selected for a trip that the union organizes to Auschwitz and the Jewish ghetto in Kraków, Poland. Bucci, the Holocaust survivor from Northern California, has attended many of these trips. Di Segni said that Italy’s 21 local communities also organize separate initiatives to learn about the Shoah. And her organization’s educational efforts include an online portal to help train instructors.She said rising antisemitism has been a challenge in teaching about the Shoah since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas on Israel and the resulting war.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter
KCRA 3’s new documentary “Always Remember Your Name” follows one of the world’s youngest Holocaust survivors, Andra Bucci, as she travels around the world to share her story with new generations of students.
Born in Italy, Bucci now lives in the Sacramento area and recently became a U.S. citizen. To her, telling the story over and over again is important to make sure something like the Holocaust doesn’t happen again.
KCRA 3 joined Bucci on a recent trip to Italy and Poland as she accompanied Italian students who were selected to visit the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, which Bucci and her sister survived.
According to Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, 7,680 out of 44,500 Italian Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
While in Italy, our documentary team met Noemi Di Segni, who has been the president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities since 2016. Under Italian law, the union formally represents Italy’s 25,000 Jews.
Di Segni said that there is no requirement that students take exams about the Holocaust but that for two decades now her organization has had a special agreement with the ministry of education to work with schools to preserve the memory of the Shoah, the Hebrew word for the Holocaust, beginning in fifth grade through high school.
Each year in September, all schools are encouraged to produce a project, especially by using art. Hundreds of thousands of students have participated in the annual contest over the past 20 years, she said. (See examples of the art below.)
“Our approach is not to teach only the Shoah, but to make the program integrated into Jewish culture. We don’t want the message to be only that Jews were persecuted,” Di Segni said. “It is important for students to understand that the group was part of the Italian culture.”
Winners of the contest are invited to a special ceremony at Italy’s presidential palace on Jan. 27, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which marks the liberation of Auschwitz.
About 100 students at a time are also selected for a trip that the union organizes to Auschwitz and the Jewish ghetto in Kraków, Poland.
Bucci, the Holocaust survivor from Northern California, has attended many of these trips.
Di Segni said that Italy’s 21 local communities also organize separate initiatives to learn about the Shoah. And her organization’s educational efforts include an online portal to help train instructors.
She said rising antisemitism has been a challenge in teaching about the Shoah since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack by Hamas on Israel and the resulting war.
See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter