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The Holocaust in Italian Collective Memory: Il giorno della memoria, 27 January 2001

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2016

Robert S. C. Gordon
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The article examines the first official, national Holocaust memorial day in Italy, the so-called Giorno della memoria (Day of memory), marked on the 56th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on 27 January 2001. It looks at the ways in which the day acted as a filter for issues of national collective memory and identity, in particular state and public negotiation of the legacy of Fascism, as well as addressing broader issues of Holocaust remembrance. The article looks first at the origins of the Giorno della memoria in political and in legislative terms. Then it sketches in the events of the day itself, at national and local levels, in political, educational and cultural terms. This is followed by an analysis of media coverage and contemporary commentary, showing how various lines of interpretation addressed general issues related to the Holocaust and specifically Italian historical, ideological and contemporary questions.

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Modern Italy , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 167 - 188
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Copyright © Association for the study of Modern Italy 

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