Saturday, October 28

7:30‒7:45 p.m. Welcoming Remarks

7:45‒9:00 p.m.
“More Italian than the Italians: Italy’s Jews Before and During Fascism”
Alexander Stille, Columbia University

Sunday, October 29

9:00‒9:15 a.m. Welcoming Remarks

9:15‒10:30 a.m.
“‘What is Left Now of My Life?’: The Italian Jewish Community Facing Fascist Persecution”
Ilaria Pavan, IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca
(read by Adriana Borra, University of Vermont)

10:45 a.m.‒12:00 p.m.
“Italo-German Collaboration in the Persecution of the Italian Jews”
Amedeo Osti Guerrazzi, University of Padua

12:00‒1:30 p.m.
Lunch

1:30‒2:45 p.m.
“‘All Are Going to Devise Ways to Save Themselves. But How?’: Reactions of Italian Jews and Italian Non-Jews to the Persecution and Deportation of Jews from Italy (1943-1945)”
Sara Berger, Fritz Bauer Institute, Frankfurt

3:00‒4:15 p.m.
“The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy: Old Controversies and New Insights”
Gerald Steinacher, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

4:30‒5:45 p.m.
“Primo Levi and the Survivors of the Auschwitz Chemical Commando”
Sergio Luzzatto, University of Connecticut

5:45‒6:30 p.m.
Commentary and Closing Discussion moderated by
Thomas Schlemmer, Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, Munich