Le Case di Micol_Micol's Houses: Le Case di Micol

Programme(s): Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV)
Topic(s): CERV-2023-CITIZENS-REM
Type of action: CERV Lump Sum Grants

Project ID: 101143680

Objective:

The heart of the project was born in Ferrara where the history of the Jewish presence unfolds over about seven centuries and is home to the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah. Le Case di Micol (Micol, like the protagonist of Giorgio Bassani's novel The Garden of the Finzi-Continis) aims to build an active memory that leverages the virtuous behaviors handed down from the past as a means of realizing the values that are the basis of citizenship European. Stories will be collected, even the simplest ones, of the houses where the women/witnesses lived, as the last place of love and happiness before deportation and of those who tried to give help and refuge. All this giving particular attention to the teaching of memory through the cinematographic language. The project involves teenage students from partner countries, second generation Holocaust witnesses and young film school students, in an interesting social recombination experiment to address the crucial issue of witnessing after witnesses. The supporting structure of the project is based on the Remembrance workshops and Bearers of Active Remembrance Courses, places of study and production which have the aim of activating a productive design community. Technology and web will allow transnational sharing: the creation of an interactive and participatory map to tell the story of the houses where the witnesses of the short films lived; divided into virtual and physical tour itineraries. The goal is to create a physical European itinerary (Italy, Poland, Belgium and the Czech Republic) of the homes of Jewish families where they found love in their last moments, before being deported. The project will give birth to the Bearers of Active Remembrance Group, a community of young people who use different languages to involve their peers and network. The Bearers of Active Remembrance Group will form the young jury of LE CASE DI MICOL Festival.