“Noi siamo Memoria”

Free – no future without remembrance | Una linea di unione tra Milano, Berlino, Cracovia, Vienna, Linz, Mauthausen, Zagabria, Tirana, Kommeno, Sisak, Bihac. I ragazzi sono stati protagonisti di un’incredibile avventura…“Se non sai cosa è successo ieri non puoi capire cosa succede oggi…”

Free – no future without remembrance.

FREE | si propone di potenziare i percorsi di cittadinanza attiva dei giovani, dei policy makers, delle istituzioni pubbliche e private e della cittadinanza in generale.

The objectives are:
Cultural and historical, with the aim of keeping alive the historical memory to promote a critical and conscious reading of the present in order to formulate interpretative hypotheses of contemporary society. Educational and social, developing teaching paths, starting from direct experiences to increase active participation in citizenship.

Institutional, developing and networking a wide range of opportunities in: Italy, Austria, Croatia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Albania, Greece: workshops, training seminars, artistic performances, performances, trips and volunteer camps.

The re-elaboration of the experiences took place through public restitution, with different forms of expression, in a container-installation of artistic performances: readings, choreography, movies, theater pièces, flash mobs, exhibitions.

FREE  ‘No future without Remembrance’

Institute of Social and Human Studies   organised in Tirana a Two-Day Conference on the heritage of Albanian struggle and culture of saving the Jews during the Second World War.

Before the conference more than 150 students and highschoolers have been informed through engaging in discussions with experts on the Albanian heritage of treating neighbors in times of danger. A great help came from Mr. Petrit Zorba – ‘Albanian – Israel Friendship Association’ whom we thank.

The Institute engages with the most pressing political, policy and cultural issues in today’s Albania by advocating for interventions that lead to the building of a more homogenized process of social transformation. One which does not increase social contradictions, but which contributes to general equality of the community. It proposes policies that enable a participatory and democratic environment both at central and local level of government, thus contributing to citizen’s active political action on the one hand and democratic capacity strengthening of the state institutions on the other.

The Institute’s work is organized in three departments: (1) Development policy analysis; (2) Regional cooperation facilitation; (3) Study of new global patterns.

The opening of the event was done by Mrs.Joleza Koka – ISSH Representative, Project Manager, Tirana followed by a distinguished panel that addressed students coming from 4 high schools of Tirana and civil society.

Panel

Greeting Word

Mr. Silvio Tursi – FREE Representative, President of ‘Tempo per L’Infanzia Coop Soc’, Milano

Mr. Asher Salah – Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem

Subject: The importance of  “Retrospective Thinking”

Mr. Petrit Zorba – ‘Albanian – Izrael Friendship Asotiation’, Chairman

Subject: The involvemt of citizens in life saving during WW II

Open Discussion with the participants

Mr. David Vezzoni – Tempo per L’Infanzia Coop Soc’, Milano

Subject:

Short video – ‘Treno della memoria’

It was really emotional to hear the testimonies of the people who really lived to see those days and witnessed their parents host Jews expelled from their countries.

All this experience and the prospective from the albanian participants in the projects was shared by the Executive Director of the Institute ISSH in the final event of FREE held on the 23-25 January 2020 in Milan, Rome.