Gianfranco Moscati
Gianfranco Moscati (born December 30, 1924 in Milan ) is an Italian collector of Holocaust documents and author.
Life
Moscati was born in Milan in 1924. In 1943 he and a large part of his family left Italy under the impression of increasing anti-Semitism and moved to Switzerland . When Moscati returned to Italy after the end of the Second World War , he settled in Naples and began to collect documents and memorabilia from the time of the persecution of the Jews, which mainly concerned those Jews who were no longer able to escape but who fell victim to the Holocaust . Over the decades, he put together a large number of originals that document the methods of persecution of the National Socialists and their influence on Jewish society, even beyond Italy. Today the collection comprises around 1,500 pieces. This includes letters, telegrams, travel documents, yellow stars and other personal memorabilia. Parts of the collection have been exhibited in Italy several times. Moscati edited some exhibition catalogs for this purpose. He also wrote monographs on the Holocaust, resistance and emigration .
The exhibition
On February 20, 2007, Moscati donated his collection to the British Imperial War Museum in order to ensure its long-term preservation and to make it available to a larger audience for scientific evaluation. A small part of the collection has been shown in the permanent Holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London since 2000. The exhibition is scientifically cataloged.
literature
- Documenti e immagini dalla persecuzione alla Shoah catalogo della mostra itinerante: tratto dalla collezione Gianfranco Moscati. Exhibition catalog, Italy 2003.
- Gianfranco Moscati (ed.): Shoah: documentazione sull'olocausto. Rome 2000.
- Gianfranco Moscati: Postal history of the nazi-antisemitism: 1933-1945. Carnago: SugarCo, 1996.
- Gianfranco Moscati: Dalla diaspora allo stato di Israele , 1989
- Gianfranco Moscati: Documenti e immagini in due sezioni: gioventù trucidata, la partecipazione ebraica nella Resistenza in Italia. , 2004.
Web links
- Website of the Gianfranco Moscati Collection at the Imperial War Museum (English, Italian)
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Moscati, Gianfranco |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian collector of Holocaust documents and author |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1924 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |