In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is observed on January 27, the Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan commemorates those Italians who suffered persecution as a result of the Racial Laws imposed by the Fascist government and under the Nazi occupation during World War II.

In commemoration of the Giorno della Memoria, we will talk to Professor Levis Sullam, a specialist in modern Italian history, Jewish history, and the History of Antisemitism and of the Holocaust, to try to understand the role Italians played in the genocide of Jews in Italy; how Italians participated and contributed to the isolation, dehumanization, and ultimately the deportations and what happened to Jews in Italy and their property during the 1930s and 40s.