‘If understanding is impossible, knowing is necessary’. The Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies organises a journey down memory lane to the Nazi death camps. A journey to remember
‘If understanding is impossible, knowing is necessary’. The construction of a conscious memory is the first step to prevent certain atrocities from ever being committed again. In the words of Primo Levi there is the sense of the initiative promoted by the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, in collaboration with CIDIC (Centre for Innovation and the Dissemination of Culture of the University of Pisa): a journey down memory lane to the Nazi extermination camps, open to a group of students from the honour students and PhD students of the School. A journey down memory lane to promote an intersectoral journey through the memory of the racial laws, persecution and the Holocaust.
How to participate
The trip organised by ANED (https://deportati.it/) is part of the initiatives for the 80th anniversary of Italy's liberation from Nazi-Fascism. The trip is reserved for a maximum of 10 participants to be selected internally from students currently enrolled in the honour students and PhD students of the School.
Those interested can send their application by 28 March 2025 to segreteria.ordinari@santannapisa.it together with a motivation letter (max 1,500 words including spaces) indicating their interest and motivation for the topics related to the trip, as well as any related study, training and research experiences.
The stages of the trip
The journey will take place from 8 to 12 May 2025 and will visit some of the places that symbolise Nazi horror: Dachau, where the first concentration camp was built in 1933; Ebensee, a concentration camp in Upper Austria where prisoners were made to work non-stop on the manufacture of V2 ballistic missiles; Gusen, also in Austria, where three sub-camps of Mauthausen were built; Hartheim Castle, where Nazi euthanasia was practised, involving the physical elimination of people with physical and mental disabilities; the Mauthausen concentration camp, the gateway to hell.
Participation in the Journey will be preceded by a number of preparatory meetings, which are compulsory.
The complete programme is available at this link: https://www.cidic.unipi.it/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Programma-2025.pdf
