On the night of 27th January, UniTS will light up its façade in red as a poignant reminder that International Holocaust Remembrance Day, dedicated to honouring the victims of the Holocaust, is commemorated worldwide.

The date was established by the United Nations General Assembly because on 27th January 1945 Soviet Red Army troops, engaged in Operation Vistula-Oder towards Germany, liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp, revealing the horrors of the Nazi regime to the international community.

In order to deepen the knowledge of the Shoah and deportations, on Monday 27th January 2025, starting at 16:00, at the Miela Theatre, there will be the 11th edition of the multidisciplinary conference ‘Living with Auschwitz. The atrocity’. 

PROGRAMME: https://portale.units.it/en/events/multidisciplinary-conference-living-auschwitz-atrocity

The initiative, born from the collaboration between the University of Trieste and the cultural association Stazione Ernesto Nathan Rogers, is part of the Rogers' Forum event, financed by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region.

The complete calendar of commemorations in Trieste can be consulted here: https://www.comune.trieste.it/it/novita-227102/comunicati-227104/27-gennaio-2025-giorno-della-memoria-cerimonia-commemorativa-alla-risiera-di-san-sabba-e-programma-attvita-culturali-291581

Moreover, from 26th February to 3rd March 2025, about forty students will take part in a trip to the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, part of the project ‘Promemoria_Auschwitz’ promoted by the association Deina APS. Information can be found here: https://www.deina.it/promemoria-auschwitz