Italy+Response

Name/email: School: Scuola media “Aldo Moro” Age: Country: Italia

1) How does your community (school, town, country) select to remember World War II? Examples: holidays, memorials, songs, movies, books… WE remember the Second World War 27th January with “giornata della Memoria” (the day of Memory) WE watch movies, we invite people who speak about their experience during those terrible years, in the school. Some of them have lived in the concentration camps. They are old, they speak of their difficulties, their pains in those days with effort. They tell the students of the “binario 21” (21th platform) of the Central station in Milan. It was an underground platform from which left a particular train with the people who should go to the concentration camps. It’s very important for the students to listen to people who lived directly that horrible experience. Some of them bring the tools they used in the camp: uniform, bowl, cap.

2) Do you know of anyone who was involved in some aspect of the World War II? If so, what is their connection? If possible, can you send a picture?

3) Is there anything else you would like to add?