11|01|27 Italian institutions in the United States and across the world, observe today the 10th Holocaust Remembrance Day – "Giorno della Memoria" – with a series of events. In Washington DC Ambassador Terzi will open the screening of 50 Italians – The men who saved 50,000 Jewish lives, a feature-length documentary by director Flaminia Lubin about how 50 high-ranking Italian diplomats and generals helped Jews escape Hitler's "final solution." "Even in the darkest moments of European history – recalls Italian Ambassador Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata – brave and honest men, who perhaps mightn't have been capable of extraordinary deeds in ordinary circumstances, were able to fight, were able to use the weapons of their strengths, their integrity and their intelligence to oppose what was wrong and inhuman. The Italian cultural Institute in in Philadelphia,is screening the film The truce, by Francesco Rosi; and in Boston a symposium on “Amnesia and Remembrance” is beingheld, followed by the screening of La Finestra di Fronte (Facing Windows) by Ferzan Ozpetek. In New York City a conference is being held on “Jews and the Unity of Italy” organized by the Consulate General of Italy in New York, the Italian Cultural Institute, and the Centro Primo Levi;

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