(January 12, 2017) On the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, on January 27, the Italian Institute of Culture in Krakow proposes the presentation of the book “The Memory Train. A journey into today’s Auschwitz” by Antonio Rinaldis (published by Imprimatur), with the participation of the author. The event is organized in cooperation with Associazione Treno della Memoria e Terra del Fuoco. The event will see the participation of the poet and writer Pietro Vitelli and a play from the memoirs of P. Moretti. A teacher and his students embark on a remembrance journey from Turin to Auschwitz and Birkenau with stops in Budapest and in Krakow, in places marked by Nazi violence. A choral novel, that of Rinaldi, which is expressed through fragments, immediate impression and emotion, where moments of reflection and commitment are alternated with fun and the desire to communicate, to be and to play of the youth . The kids testimonies, made in the form of synthetic and immediate writings, are the counterpoint of the professor’s vision on the trip: two different worlds, that of the young and the adults, two looks of a painful past and the death camps, but in general the experience of totalitarianism that have torn the European twentieth century. (Red)
