Liliana Picciotto Fargion
Liliana Picciotto (* 1947 in Cairo ) is an Italian political scientist and historian who deals with art history and literature , music and the Jewish culture of Italy, in particular with the deportations from 1943 to 1945.
Life
Liliana Picciotto was born into a Sephardic family who returned to Italy in 1948, from where she fled the fascists in 1936. This family originally came from Aleppo, Syria . She grew up in Milan , where she studied political science. She has four children born in 1972, 1976, 1981 and 1986.
Since 1969 she has been working at Milan's Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea, both as a librarian , as an archivist and as a historian. Since 1986 she has been responsible for recording the names of those Jews who were imprisoned under the fascists and the National Socialists . With a special permit from the Ministero della Giustizia , she was given access to prison lists, to non-public archives, but also to documents from the Auschwitz concentration camp . In 1985 she was the first Italian to look at archives in Yad Vashem , but also documents from the Red Cross in Bad Arolsen , which have only been accessible to the general public since 2008. The names gathered in this way were published in 1992 in Il libro della memoria , a work of almost a thousand pages, the third edition of which was published by Mursia in 2002.
A second project, entitled Memoria della salvezza, deals with the escape strategies of the Jews hunted in Italy by the German fascists between 1943 and 1945, as well as the reactions of the rest of society to this process.
She worked with Marcello Pezzetti on the documentary Memoria , directed by Ruggero Gabbai . It was shown at the 1997 Berlin, Nuremberg and Jerusalem film festivals. With Pezzetti she created a multimedia production from 2000 entitled Destinazione Auschwitz (Destination Auschwitz). Prior to that, she had advised on film projects on the Holocaust , such as Jona che visse nella balena by Roberto Faenza (1993) and the 1995 documentary of Rai 3 Per ignota destinazione .
Finally, Mondadori published her work on the Righteous Among the Nations, I giusti d'Italia, in 2006 ( see also: List of the Righteous Among the Nations from Italy , which included 634 names at the beginning of 2015).
Works
- L'occupazione tedesca e gli Ebrei di Roma. Documenti e fatti , Carucci Editore, Rome 1979.
- Il libro della memoria. Gli ebrei deportati dall'Italia (1943-1945) , Mursia, Milan 1991.
- Per ignota destinazione: gli ebrei sotto il nazismo , Arnoldo Mondadori, Milan 1994.
- Sopravvissuti. (with Anna Bravo ) 2004.
- I giusti d'Italia , Mondadori - Yad Vashem, Milan 2006.
- L'alba ci colse come un tradimento. Gli ebrei nel campo di Fossoli, 1943-1944 , Mondadori, Milan 2010.
honors and awards
- Entry in the Golden Book of the Jewish National Fund , Milan 1991
- Premio San Camillo , Naples 1992
- Special Prize Acqui Storia, Acqui 1992 (Literature Prize since 1968)
- Premio Viareggio , Viareggio 1993 (Literature Prize since 1929)
- International Prize of the European Commission for the best innovative cultural production, 2000, for the CD Destinazione Auschwitz
Web links
- Liliana Picciotto ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Homepage, archive.org, March 4, 2016
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Picciotto Fargion, Liliana |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Picciotto, Liliana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian political scientist and historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cairo |