67th anniversary of the deportation of the Mauthausen concentration camp in the Florentine
ceremony in Piazza Santa Maria Novella, not to forget
Mayor Mauthausen Punkenhofer Thomas, won the Mayor of Florence, Matteo Renzi a stone collection from the death camp, "to return home the souls of the Florentine"
Not to forget. It renews the commitment of all local institutions to remember the many innocent young people deported from Florence for political reasons in 1944 and imprisoned in concentration camps.
To mark the 67th anniversary of the deportation of the Florentines in the Mauthausen concentration camp, was held this morning, Monday, March 8, a ceremony in Piazza Santa Maria Novella, Florence dall'Aned organized in the presence of Gonfaloni Communities land, as well as that of Florence, the Province and the Region of Tuscany.
The initiative - which is part of two days' memory has a future of peace "- this was the delegation of the City of Mauthausen, with Mayor Thomas Punkenhofer on the occasion of second anniversary of the Pact of Brotherhood between the City of Florence and the Austrian, Marcello Martini, a former inmate of Mauthausen, Alessandro Ducci, President ANED Florence, Matteo Renzi, Mayor of Florence, Daniela Lastri, Bureau of the Regional Council, John Di Fede, Minister for Education Province Florence Rosa Maria Di Giorgi, education Councillor City of Florence.
"Today we celebrate a special March 8 for a two reasons - said Alessandro Ducci, President dell'Aned Florence. Meanwhile, deported because none of those guys in '44 is no longer with us. The last of them was Mario Piccioli and disappeared last August. And, particularly because of the town of Mauthausen, the delegation is here to renew the partnership with London: a strong signal that we wanted to give two years ago, to indicate that we are ready to pacify with anyone, provided the other side there is a serious interlocutor who assume its historical responsibility and it is ready to apologize, proposing a project shared memory.
During his address, Mayor Thomas Punkenhofer, Matteo Renzi won the mayor and the city of Florence, a stone collection from the Mauthausen camp, "with the desire to return 'home' the souls of many Florentines exterminated on the terran and in those places of barbarism. "
" Being here - he added in his speech the 'Councillor of faith - is critical because today is a serious danger that we run is to remove, to forget even Because of revisionism that undermine the foundations of memory. We have a moral duty to continue to remember because democracy remains alive if we the preservation and protection for the future. "
" I was the freshman 76,430 - said Marcello Martini who survived the Mauthausen camp - and when I was deported I was only 14 years. Since then the people I see them naked, naked as were my companions, and myself: stripped of everything, in front of human atrocities. But the greatest teaching that this experience has left me is that we should not cling to material things, because those we can lose at any moment. What we do not lose anything, that no human being can ever take away is what we have in the head, hands and heart. Because the moral wealth and knowledge are qualities inviolable ".
Subsequently, the delegation went to the track 6 station Santa Maria Novella, where the new plaque was unveiled in memory of the deportees in the province of Florence, produced with the assistance of the Regional Council of Tuscany.
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