- Summary
- "The former camp of Fossoli in the North of Italy was established in 1942 by the Royal Italian Army as a camp for prisoners of war, later being a Nazi-Fascist concentration and transit camp for political opponents, Jews and forced labourers; after the war it became a Catholic community for orphans and a camp for refugees from the former Italian territories of Istria until 1970. A complex system of memory and heritage stemmed from the legacy of the former camp: its remains, the Museum and Monument to the Political and Racial Deportee by architects BBPR and the synagogues of Carpi. The Fondazione Fossoli, created in Carpi in 1996, manages this legacy with the purpose of preserving and transmitting the historical memory of the Fossoli camp. Linking together the history of the Holocaust, of the Resistance to Nazi-Fascism and of the political and civic commitment that inspired the birth of the Italian Republic after the dictatorship and the war, Fossoli lies at the very core of Italy's contemporary cultural memory. The essays in this volume analyse, from different disciplinary perspectives, the material and immaterial heritage that constitutes today a rich and articulated memorial system"-- Provided by publisher.
- Variant Title
- Fossoli: history, memory, aesthetics
- Series
- Cultural memories, vol. 16
Cultural memories. vol. 16.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, [2021]
- Locale
- Italy
Carpi
Great Britain
Carpi (Italy)
- Contents
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At the Roots of the Fossoli Foundation: The Fossoli Camp / Marzia Luppi
The Southern Terminal. Italy and the Memories of Deportation: A Transnational Perspective / Lorenzo Bertucelli
The Fossoli Foundation and Its Heritage of History and Memory / Roberta Mira
In Memory of the Other Resistance: The Places and Architecture of the Fossoli Memorial / Giovanni Leoni
Pensaci, uomo!: Holocaust Memory, the Photo-Icon-Object and Licalbe Steiner at Carpi / Robert S. C. Gordon
Rethinking Trauma, Rethinking History: The Case of Fossoli-Carpi / Patrizia Violi
Domesticity and Sacredness in Synagogue Architecture: The Oratory and Temple in Carpi (1722
1921) / Matteo Cassani Simonetti
The Afterlife of the Fossoli Camp / Daniele Salerno
The Remains and the Landscape: Strategies for Active Conservation of the Former Campo di Fossoli / Andrea Ugolini.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Cassani Simonetti, Matteo, editor.
Mira, Roberta, 1973- editor.
Salerno, Daniele, 1980- editor.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
At the Roots of the Fossoli Foundation: The Fossoli Camp / Marzia Luppi -- The Southern Terminal. Italy and the Memories of Deportation: A Transnational Perspective / Lorenzo Bertucelli -- The Fossoli Foundation and Its Heritage of History and Memory / Roberta Mira -- In Memory of the Other Resistance: The Places and Architecture of the Fossoli Memorial / Giovanni Leoni -- Pensaci, uomo!: Holocaust Memory, the Photo-Icon-Object and Licalbe Steiner at Carpi / Robert S. C. Gordon -- Rethinking Trauma, Rethinking History: The Case of Fossoli-Carpi / Patrizia Violi -- Domesticity and Sacredness in Synagogue Architecture: The Oratory and Temple in Carpi (1722 -- 1921) / Matteo Cassani Simonetti -- The Afterlife of the Fossoli Camp / Daniele Salerno -- The Remains and the Landscape: Strategies for Active Conservation of the Former Campo di Fossoli / Andrea Ugolini.
