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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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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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