might seem inappropriate and provocative, on the occasion of Remembrance Day, to assert and emphasize the limits of the recall, but I think that in this moment of reflection for many years dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust should be questioning the political and educational value of memory, a value that we can not think either implicit or implied. Shortly before he died tragically Primo Levi had proposed to rethink the usefulness of the trips to Auschwitz aimed at boys and girls. Just as a former deportee, the author Turin saw the limits of these trips in their being often a mere ritual, which is not going to touch deep in the conscience and feelings of adolescents: a trip school, therefore, with a day's visit to the camp in which, when it was good, the boys posed as they face the grief and sadness. And nothing, or almost. These operations, like all the other occasions on which we remember the victims merely a ritualistic and rhetorical homage distracted, are not only unnecessary but make the game just for those who would like to forget.
It is no coincidence that in recent years, not only in Italy, the Holocaust has entered the public debate as a political tool, often wielded by the very forces that until a few years ago were at his side, more or less ammicanti, the various reissues of revisionism. Today the memory of the Holocaust is also used instrumentally to stigmatize the behavior of political leaders, especially the Islamic world, which in turn would be the "new Hitler", you do not see the horizon, however, a discourse on the Holocaust that makes evident in his current character have achieved a combination of technology and power in his possession and gradually ousted all rights of minorities and every speech in their favor, having in his endless, alongside the Jews and the Jews, communists and democrats, and Roma, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals and political opponents. The Holocaust is about us: about us as human beings, we lodged in our consciousness that the monster is ready to be reborn when some political manipulator can legitimize pulses, of which we continually draw around us we see the gray area of \u200b\u200bthe collaborators of the domain, the obtuse officials are ready to obey every order, prone to any of the courtiers of the prince of desire and turn blind and deaf to any critical thinking .
But the Holocaust comes to us also because the procedures and policies of extermination were not destroyed by the extraordinary power of resistance that swept fascism. Seats differentiated Lombard doc on metropolitan pigs tend to urinate on the ground on which it is raised a mosque, nursery schools banned the children of illegal immigrants, and doctors and school administrators to report the lights reduced to clandestine you treat or attend school. Who does not see in these proposals, for now just throw it there "to see how he does", draw a plan that obviously will not bring the same result dall'hitlerismo but it certainly goes fishing in the same murky area of \u200b\u200bemotions, anger, irrationality? So
remembering is not enough, it is a civic duty and moral and political, but it can not be the end or purpose of an educational, but it must be the beginning. We start from the memory into an instrument of change and protest against a dimension of evil that is still with us, not only in the proposals for political or racist movements anti-democratic, but in our daily lives, as the bar at the station, at school and in the square "staying home and going by" an evil that feeds on the humiliation of the different turns of the beating homosexuality, ' insult to the Maghreb, violence to women, the district still not suitable for children and baby. There is a withered and faded memory, a memory that is not asking any more, not feeling any more moves, there is a poem of memory, a creative force, that manages to give birth to new ways of living together, new policies, new human beings. That is, faced with memories of the deportees and the deportation, not just open the door to the emotions, too often left to themselves and therefore unnecessary emotional memory of the world must move to the universe of reason, criticism, politics. In the poetry of memory, then, the past flows into the future, the memory encompasses the design, nostalgia bride utopia: remembering is not enough if it is not the beginning of a political effort to build a different future, and indeed it is even harmful if it is just an empty ritual, which helps us to close our eyes to the violence of today, tomorrow may not even have the honor of a day of reflection of their own.
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