Images of Rebirth and the DP Camps in Southern Puglia
The section of the UNRRA archive about refugees in Italy is filled with hundreds of thousands of documents....
Essays
A Note From a Refugee of 75 Years Ago
While browsing the files of the UNRRA archive looking for data on the DP camps at...
La Famiglia Rosselli – Una Tragedia Italiana
At first glance and especially from a certain distance, Amelia Rosselli, reclining in her rocker on...
Never Again What?
On the Hard Questions Primo Levi’s Still Asking One hundred years ago Primo Levi was...
Stateless: A Russian Childhood in Fascist Italy
Childhood – growing up in Italy 1925-39 Marita Dresner In 1924, when I was born in...
Weightless
… our poor body, so vulnerable to swords, to guns and to viruses, is space-proof. Republished...
Defoe as a Possible Model
The structure of History, a Novel, departs substantially from Morante’s previous novels and poses some interesting...
Cinema as Archive
Amos Gitai once told me: “When the credits scroll down at the end of a screening,...
Mussolini’s Camps: Civilian Internment in Fascist Italy (1940-1943)
The train that left Ljubljana in the early hours of July 24th, 1942 with somewhere between...
What exactly is a concentration camp?
L’internata numero 6/Internee n. 6 – The earliest known diary of daily life in a fascist...