From Monday, January 27 to Saturday 1 February, the atrium of Palazzo Gambacorti in Pisa will host the exhibition "Memory of Suspended Lives", taken from the installation work by Gianni Lucchesi, Chiara Evangelista, Ursula Ferrara, Massimo Bergamasco, Michele Emdin, Presented for the first time in 2018, at the Church of Sant'Anna in Pisa.

The initiative is part of the program of events organized by the Municipality of Pisa, in collaboration with the Prefecture of Pisa, the Province of Pisa and the Jewish Community of Pisa, Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is celebrated every year on 27 January to remember the victims of the Holocaust during the Second World War.

Monday 27 at 15:00 in the Atrium of Palazzo Gambacorti there will be the inauguration of the video installation that will be open until Saturday with hours 7:30 - 19:30.

The exhibition

The sleep of reason generates monsters. The twentieth century produced the aberrant idea of the final solution, the extermination of the Jewish people and other minorities such as the Roma with its meticulous implementation by willing executioners in every corner of Europe. The exhibition "Memory of suspended lives" refers to the events that in 1938 took away from civil life, academic career, university studies thousands of Italian and foreign Jews who taught and studied at universities. Twenty professors and two hundred and ninety students were expelled from the University of Pisa, and for many of them it was a prelude to deportation, extermination and emigration. A drama told by images and sounds, thanks to the representation of the monologue "Numbers" by Annick Emdin, played by Francesco Morosini and the images of students expelled from the University of Pisa represented in the morphing by Ursula Ferrara  (background music of Ershter Vals). Through the images, voices and music proposed tells the upheaval of those lives, rejected because considered "different" with a bureaucratic act signed by the Rector D'Achiardi, which in many cases followed the death sentence, The flight and hiding in the long winter that marked Europe between wars and massacres until liberation in 1945.