{"id":118919,"date":"2025-02-04T17:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=118919"},"modified":"2025-02-03T11:30:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:30:28","slug":"04-00-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=118919","title":{"rendered":"Shoah Museum in Rome Acquires, Exhibits Mural of Holocaust Survivors Repeatedly Defaced in Milan"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Shoah Museum in Rome Acquires, Exhibits Mural of Holocaust Survivors Repeatedly Defaced in Milan<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri and Mario Venezia, president of the Shoah Museum Foundation, unveiling the mural in Rome on Jan. 27, 2025. Photo: Provided<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Shoah Museum in Rome exhibited on Monday a mural depicting two of the last living Italian Holocaust survivors, newly acquired by the museum after the\u00a0artwork was defaced three times<\/a>\u00a0and then completely painted over in the streets of Milan by antisemitic vandals.<\/span><\/p>\n

The street artwork, painted by renowned Italian contemporary pop artist aleXsandro Palombo, portrays two real-life survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp \u2014\u00a0Italian Senate member for life Liliana Segre<\/a>\u00a0and Italian author Sami Modiano. In the mural, the two Auschwitz survivors are wearing concentration camp uniforms underneath bulletproof vests that feature a Star of David with the word \u201cJude\u201d in the center.<\/span><\/p>\n

The mural, titled \u201cAnti-Semitism, History Repeating,\u201d was on view in Milan\u2019s Piazzale Loreto and was unveiled in September 2024. In October, the Stars of David were partially vandalized. In November, the yellow Stars of David and the faces of the Holocaust survivors were scraped off of the mural. A month later,\u00a0vandals painted over the entire mural<\/a>\u00a0with white paint, erasing it completely.<\/span><\/p>\n

The mural has since been reproduced by Palombo and the Shoah Museum has now placed it in the Jewish ghetto of Rome, in front of the ancient structure the Portico d\u2019Ottavia and under the plaque commemorating the roundup of Jews from the Roman Ghetto on Oct. 16, 1943.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cArt is the highest expression of freedom, and repeatedly attacking a work that portrays two survivors of Auschwitz highlights how the very value of democracy and all our freedoms is in danger,\u201d said Palombo. He added in part that the \u201cgesture of courage and resistance\u201d displayed by the Shoah Museum in Rome and the Italian Jewish community \u201cis a great and precious lesson in civilization for all of us\u201d in combating antisemitic violence, hatred, and \u201cthese new forms of social and cultural terrorism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Now part of the museum\u2019s permanent collection, the mural was unveiled outside the Portico d\u2019Ottavia on Holocaust Remembrance Day, which this year marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The mural will be on view outdoors in front of the Portico d\u2019Ottavia until Feb. 2 and will then be permanently placed in the museum\u2019s building, Casina dei Vallati.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHaving this beautiful mural here in Rome, on the eve of the [Holocaust] Day of Remembrance and on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, is a very important signal,\u201d said the Mayor of Rome Roberto Gualtieri. \u201cIt is the beginning of a new story, a tribute to these great witnesses, an act of justice and a dutiful commitment against antisemitism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we learned about the vandalism of the mural in Milan, we were overwhelmed with indignation,\u201d added Mario Venezia, president of the Shoah Museum in the Italian capital. \u201cA despicable and senseless gesture that not only strikes at art but attempts to wound the very heart of memory. However, we have chosen not to surrender to this symbolic violence. We transformed our anger into an act of beauty and resistance by contacting the artist, who was able to reinvent the work and create a new version in Rome.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Venezia added, \u201cThis mural is our response: a wound that heals, a symbol that comes back to life stronger than before, because Memory cannot be defaced.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Venezia, along with the mayor of Rome and a group of children from Roman schools, visited the site of the former Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland this week to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Segre attended the unveiling of the mural in Rome on Monday and was accompanied by Israeli Ambassador to Rome Jonathan Peled, Chief Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni, Vice President of the Jewish Community of Rome Antonella Di Castro, and Noemi Di Segni, who is president of Ucei, the union of Italian Jewish communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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