International Holocaust Remembrance Day - Giorno della Memoria
Panel discussion and documentary film screening

Wednesday, January 27, 2010
6:00 pm - Panel discussion
7:00 pm - Film screening
Italian Cultural Institute
425 Washington Street (at Battery), Suite 200
San Francisco

A panel discussion - Protagonists of the Aftermath: Italian Women Writing the Holocaust - on the role of women writing about the Holocaust will be followed by a screening of the film State of Denial and a Q&A with film director Germano Maccioni.

Protagonists of the Aftermath: Italian Women Writing the Holocaust
Elisabetta Nelsen (San Francisco State University) joins Francesco Spagnolo (The Magnes) in exploring the roles of Italian women writing the Holocaust. The conversation will highlight the works of Natalia Ginzburg, Elsa Morante, Rosetta Loy, Piera Sonnino and other Italian female authors seen as marginal observers, as victims in search of a voice, and as protagonists of the aftermath, or the attempt to use literature to come to terms with History.

The State of Exception (Lo stato di eccezione)
This documentary depicts the legal trials in which seventeen former German members of the SS military were accused and found guilty of planning and carrying out the so-called “Monte Sole massacre” – the small town located in the province of Bologna where more than five hundred civilians were murdered over the course of a few days between September 29 and October 5, 1944. The director of the film, Germano Maccioni, will be present for a Q&A after the film screening.

Co-sponsored by the Holocaust Center of Northern California and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di San Francisco.

Adminission is free.
RSVP to 415.788.7142 x18 or rsvp@sficc.org.

For more information call(415.788.7142 or visit www.iicsanfrancisco.esteri.it