Liliana Piciotto Fargion
Marcello Pezzetti


Authors Liliana Picciotto Fargion
{Liliana Picciotto Fargion}


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As a graduate of Political Sciences, Liliana Picciotto Fargion has been working at CDEC since 1969, as a scientific contributor. Her 12 year research on the attempts to exterminate Italian Jewry developed into Il libro della memoria. Gli ebrei deportati dall'Italia 1943-45 (The Book of Memory. Jews deported from Italy 1943-45), Milan 1991. Besides the many important acknowledgments this earned her, the book was handed personally by the author to the President of the State of Israel. Ms. Picciotto Fargion has also publishedL'occupazione tedesca e gli ebrei di Roma, Rome1979; Gli ebrei in provincia di Milano, Milan 1992; Per ignota destinazione. Gli ebrei e il nazismo, Milan 1994 as well as countless essays published in several reviews on contemporary history in Italy, France, USA, Germany, Poland and Israel. As an editor for La rassegna mensile di Israel, a periodical of Jewish culture, she has been recently appointed as the editor of the Italian issue of the international project The Shoah story by Countries by the Yad Vashem Institute in Jerusalem, the world's most important Institute for Shoah studies. Together with Marcello Pezzetti, Ms. Picciotto Fargion is the author of the documentary film Memoria. I sopravvissuti raccontano, selected in 1997 for Berlin and Jerusalem film festivals.

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Authors Marcello Pezzetti



{Marcello Pezzetti}


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Marcello Pezzetti is an historical researcher at the CDEC of Milan, where he is responsible for the most important videotèque on Jewish history in Europe and for the Institute's educational department. Besides holding refresher courses for teachers in Italy, Switzerland and France, he is also a lecturer at the Ecole Internationale pour l'etude de la Shoah at the historical institute Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. As a major historical expert on Auschwitz death camp and a scholar of Shoah cinematography (a number of his articles have been published in sector periodicals), he is frequently invited to attend meetings and conventions held at universities and history institutions in Italy and abroad (Paris, Bruxelles, Berlin, Washington, New York and Jerusalem). Mr. Pezzetti is a consultant for RAI (Italian State Broadcasting Corporation) and for the prominent Italian private network Mediaset. Presently, he contributes to the television program on Jewish culture Sorgente di vita, and to several other TV programs, like Special Mixer; Combat Film. La liberazione di Buchenwald; Auschwitz; L'olocausto dimenticato. He acted as consultant for various feature films, the most recent being Roberto Benigni's La vita è bella. Together with Liliana Picciotto Fargion, Mr. Pezzetti has set up the Memory Archives, a fundamental collection of filmed interviews with survivig Italian witnesses of the Shoah. This led to the making of the documentary Memoria. I sopravvissuti raccontano, which won a nomination at 1997 Berlin Film Festival.


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