The world mobilizes for Sakineh
calls against her stoning
International mobilization for Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. Many are the demonstrations and calls from all over the world.
It is possible to sign the petition online.
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"I wanted to be a witness"
an English soldier interned himself in Auschwitz
The Wallenberg Foundation honours the figure of Denis Avey, a British soldier who entered Auschwitz willingly under a person exchange to be able and see the reality hidden behind the barbed wire. He remained in the camp until the end of the war and he recalls his experience as follows: "I have seen the most evil place".
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Seveso dedicates a garden to Giacomo Bassi
a Righteous among the Nations
The Mulberry Garden in Verona street was named after the city clerk who rescued a Jewish family in 1943. The pupils of the Frassati high school staged an exhibition about his life.
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Hrant Dink’s lawyer died
he was found hanged in his flat
Hakan Karadag, plaintiff lawyer at the trial against Hrant Dink’s murderers, was found hanged in his Istanbul flat on Friday 4 June.
During the trial the main defendant, Ogun Samast, had repeatedly threatened him before the court, to then though retract after a formal protest. Police have been investigating the actual cause of his death. Three years after the Armenian journalist’s murder the Turkish court failed to hand down a sentence against the confessed criminal.
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Tehran one year on
the green wave and the memory of Neda
Demonstrators put down in the square one year after the violent repression of the protests against Ahmadinejad’s reelection.
The country is secured: mass sms by the regime which threatens: "If you rally you will be punished for foreign plot under the Islamic law."
Screening of the documentary "For Neda", in memory of the girl who has become a symbol of the Green Revolution, boycotted.
The struggle for freedom doesn’t stop and the book "Death to the dictator!", the story of an anonymous Iranian dissident arrested and tortured for taking to the square against Ahmadinejad, is published in England.
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“Stalingrad is the catastrophe of evil”
unpublished note by Vasily Grossman unveiled
A note handwritten and undersigned by the writer was found by scholar Pietro Tosco who is publishing it into the magazine "La Nuova Europa" (“The New Europe”) with a broad text analysis.
The document brings about a bitter reflection on the victory of Stalingrad, one which highlights a parallelism between this battle and the Holocaust.
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Srebrenica, it was genocide
landmark verdict of the Hague Criminal Court
First two convictions for genocide.
The Srebrenica massacre must be considered as an episode in the framework of a plan aiming at carrying out genocide. 15 years after the bloodshed the Court sentences the seven officers of the Serbian-Bosnian army accused of crimes against the humankind, violation of war customs and genocide.
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21 years after Tienanmen square
anniversary marked by censorship
The US Administration recalls the 1989 events and launches a call in favour of the dissidents who are still in jail, but Beijing forbids all sorts of commemoration. A cartoon remembering the repression was censored, the youths who brought the “Goddess of democracy” in the square were arrested.
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The file on Gino Bartali at Yad Vashem
with the testimony of a woman from Florence
The champion kept forged documents hidden under the saddle and in the crossbar of his bycicle and delivered them to the fleeing Jews.
His file opened in Jerusalem. It could end up with the recognition of Gino Bartali as a Righteous among the Nations.
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Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi released
he's a symbol of the opposition to Ahmadinejad
The dissident director arrested in March has been freed on bail. He had begun a protest hunger strike some days ago. Over the past few weeks there had been worldwide calls for his release, including those of many Hollywood stars taking part into the Cannes festival, whose jury he had been invited to join.
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The mother of another prison inmate, Majid Tavakoli, reports: "The world doesn't hear of him, no one cries about his hunger strike".
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Lady Freedom excluded from elections
the Ethiopian leader held in isolation
Ethiopia cast its ballots without Birtukan Mideksa, excluded from the race. One of the few women leading an opposition party in Africa is in jail for her ideas again, but doesn't give up the struggle for civil rights and the respect of the Constitution.
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Russia Gulags are eternal
Khodorkovsky on hunger strike
New charges for the former oligarch. A second trial could relegate him to jail for 22 more years. CNN journalists managed to interview him.
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New trials in Argentina
ex dictators arrested
Crackdown on Reynaldo Bignone, Jorge Rafael Videla and José Martinez de Hoz, among the guilty for the tragedy of desaparecidos. They are charged with tortures, murders and abductions, also of babies.
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Freedom is within us. Popieluszko
the movie about the Solidarity priest presented in Italy
Presentation of the film to the Italian audience with the participation of Annalia Guglielmi, Gariwo contributor and author of the book Popieluszko. Non si può uccidere la speranza (Popieluszko: you can't kill hope) who met the priest personally.
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The world remembers the Armenian genocide
24th April 1915-2010
Turkish intellectuals launch a call to commemorate the genocide in Istanbul and write: "This mourning is for all of us". Rome's Armenian Community promotes the awareness campaign "I do remember".
The commemorations calendar is available inside.
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The Righteous' Garden is like an open book
Milan celebrates its six new trees
Update 20th April
Many students and citizens took part in the Ceremony to honour the figures of Neda Agha Soltan, Marek Edelman, Vasily Grossman, Giacomo Gorrini, Guelfo Zamboni, and Enrico Calamai.
12th April
Six new trees in honor of the Righteous
ceremony with their relatives in Milan
11 a.m. - Garden of the Righteous Worldwide at Monte Stella, p.za S. Maria Nascente, MM1 QT8
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Poland mourns its Smolensk dead
members of Solidarnosc perished in the crash
Among the 96 dead there were also some dissidents who had been prominent figures of Solidarnosc and fought against totalitarianism, for freedom and democracy in the Country. Their biographies will soon be published in Gariwo.
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Let's plant a tree for Neda together
join the Facebook group
The Association for the Milan Garden of the Righteous chose to dedicate one of the new trees to be planted at Monte Stella to Neda Soltan, symbol of the protests for freedom in Iran. Join the group on Facebook and let's plant her tree together so that the cry of the young Iranian people doesn't remain unheard.
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16th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide
presentation of the Peace Nobel Prize nominations
Commemoration held by the association Bene Rwanda on 10th April in Rome with nomination of Rwanda righteous for the Peace Nobel Prize. A major event will take place at the United Nations premises in New York and Geneva.
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Highlights
the seminar speeches are online
Righteous and witnesses: historical remembrance and action ethics
Gariwo seminar for the training and further education of teachers
8th, 12th, 19th March
Milan - Casa della Cultura, via Borgogna 3
(MM San Babila)
from 15.30 to 18.30
You can download the abstracts of the speeches delivered at the course for high school teachers by experts on the subject of the Righteous in the history of the Twentieth Century and on the nowadays figures of civil courage.
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Armenians were victims of genocide
Washington clashes with Turkey
This is the content of the resolution approved by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Congress with a 23 to 22 vote. Ankara recalls its Ambassador.
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Orlando Zapata dies in jail
indignation in the democratic world
The Cuban dissident, arrested in 2003 over "insult to the figure of Fidel Castro", died at his 85th day of hunger strike against the abuses and tortures undergone. 25 people heading to his funerals have been arrested. Grief and indignation from the democratic Countries.
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Dusko Kondor Civil Courage Prizes
awarded by Gariwo Sarajevo
Six are the figures awarded with the prize issued to remember the human rights activist and member of Gariwo Sarajevo murdered in 2007: Krstan Bijeljac, Esad Alic, Slobodan Pejovic, Srdjan Aleksic, Miomir Mile Plakalovic, Amela Dudic.
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Salonicco '43 in Milan
for the Garden of the Righteous Association
The show devoted to Consul Guelfo Zamboni who took hundreds Jews into safety will be at Teatro Franco Parenti in Milan on 22nd February. Entrance upon booking.
The initiative falls within the programme of commemorations scheduled by the Association for the Milan Garden of the Righteous, formed by Milan City Administration, the Jewish Community and the Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide Committee-Gariwo.
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"Repression against the opponents"
the call of Russian intellectuals to Europe
Many intellectuals and former political prisoners addressed an open letter to the European leaders in which they underlined that in Russia no freedom of expression is provided and asked the European leaders to "take a stand for freedom of speech".
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Foibe killings, not to be forgotten
the Day of Remembrance
In 2004 the Italian Republic established the "Day of remembrance in memory of the foibe killings victims, of the Julian-Dalmatian exodus, and of the events occurred along the Eastern border". There are many commemorations devoted to this tragedy.
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Editorial
by Gariwo
Responsible memory
by Gabriele Nissim, 14 January 2010
Would you like to join the debate on the Editorial?
We will publish the most significant passages.
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Flickers of light
Righteous people in gloomy times
In honor of Remembrance Day 2010
Mayor Moratti announces the six Righteous to be honoured at the Monte Stella Garden
22nd January at 9.00 a.m., Milan, Teatro Derby. International meeting on Marek Edelman, Vasilij Grossman and Guelfo Zamboni. Held by Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide Committee, Milan City Administration and Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.
Speeches by Gabriele Nissim, Konstanty Gebert, Adriano Dell'Asta, Antonio Ferrari, Giuseppe Piperno and Grossman's son Fedor Guber.
Moderator: Francesco M. Cataluccio.
Supporting documents available inside
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Toni Capuozzo wins "Hrant Dink" Prize
for freedom of information
The purpose of the Prize is to commemorate the Armenian journalist killed in Istanbul in 2007. The winner of the third edition is the famous war correspondent, anchorman of the weekly tv programme Terra!
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Farewell to Miep Gies
she saved Anne Frank's diary
The woman who hid the Franks and found the young writer's notebooks has passed away. She was one of the most important Holocaust witnesses.
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