The commissioner Mauro Felicori at the inauguration at the Meb of the works carried out also with the support of the Region through the Regional Law on Memory. The week leading up to January 27, the international anniversary in memory of the extermination of the Jewish population and of all the deportees to Nazi concentration camps, opens. The initiatives in Emilia-Romagna to remember the victims of the Holocaust Bologna – “It is essential to continue to remember. Never stop the enormous tragedy of the Shoah in the attention of everyone, especially the young, and remember the victims of the Holocaust. Only by returning to what happened because of the criminal and dark madness, to the racial laws desired by the fascist regime in Italy, can we always keep the lesson of history alive and not fall back so much in the past. And it is equally important to keep the memory of those who oppose that madness, taking the right side of history and humanity. People who strongly believed in the values ​​of freedom, democracy and equality. The Righteous, in fact, who in our country and in our region have allowed the rescue of persecuted Jews and contribute to those values ​​born from the Resistance to Nazi-Fascism and enshrined in the Republican Constitution ”. Thus the Region, Stefano Bonaccini, on the occasion of the presentation – president at the Jewish Museum of Bologna – of the program in view of next January 27, the Day of Remembrance. The international anniversary was set on the day in which the concentration camp of Auschwitz was liberated in 1945 in memory of the extermination of the Jewish population and of all the deportees persecuted and killed during the Holocaust. Representing the Region, the Councilor for Culture, Mauro Felicori. With him the presidents of the Jewish Museum Foundation of Bologna, Guido Ottolenghi, and of the Jewish one, Daniele De Paz, together with the curators of the exhibition and the volume dedicated to the Righteous of Emilia-Romagna which opens the week of initiatives. “My sincere goes to the Jewish Museum Foundation and to all those who collaborated in reconstructing the story of these 76 fellow countrymen – says Felicori-. Women and men of which Emilia-Romagna is proud, because under the Nazi-Fascist dictatorship they wanted to fight for justice and the right to life that belongs to every person. An example for all of us and for future generations “. On the commemorative day, at the Teatro del Baraccano, the Concert for the Day of Remembrance “Come night, drink light”, with music by A. Schönberg and O. Messiaen, performed by the Baraccano Orchestra, conducted by Giambattista Giocoli, closes.