Like every year, Ca’ Foscari offers a rich program for the International Day of Remembrance in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, which occurs on January 27, the day on which the gates of Auschwitz were torn down in 1945. To commemorate the victims and not to forget. The theme for 2023 is the representations of the Shoah: in cinema, theatre, literature, through stumbling blocks. The anniversary will be inaugurated on 18 January 2023 with the exhibition Ca’ Foscari e antisemitismo, a selection from the Ca’ Foscari Archive and Historical Fund, which exhibits documents related to anti-Semitic propaganda of the Fascist period and the racial laws in the entrance hall of Ca’ Foscari in the university. In particular, the selection proposes stories of Ca’ Foscari women who, as Jews or considered as such, have suffered racial persecution. In Tesa 2 CFZ Cultural Flow Zone (Dorsoduro 1392), however, a selection of books and newspaper articles is exhibited which testify to the hatred towards Jews both during the Nazi-fascist period and in previous years. The exhibition, curated by Delfina Majer and Linda Spinazzè, therefore aims to stimulate reflections on the theme of racial hatred in a broader historical perspective, which includes the prodromes of anti-Semitic discourse in Europe.
