Chieri – HOLOCAUST REMEBRANCE DAY 2026

This year, Chieri will once again mark Holocaust Remembrance Day. The program includes an institutional commemorative ceremony, a conference at the Civic Library, and a visit to the sites of the Jewish community of Chieri, organized by Carreum Potentia ODV.
“As President Mattarella stated, ‘the dead of Auschwitz, scattered to the wind, continually admonish us: the path of humanity proceeds along bumpy and risky roads. And unfortunately, even in our day, the wheel of history sometimes seems to lose its way, taking humanity backwards to times and seasons we never thought we would have to relive,'” declared Mayor Alessandro Sicchiero and Councilor for Culture Antonella Giordano. “January 27, Holocaust Remembrance Day, is one of the key dates in our civil calendar. It is the day on which we remember the Holocaust, the shame of the racial laws, and the guilt and complicity of our country in allying itself with the Nazis. It is the day we commemorate and honor the victims of the concentration camps, millions of whom disappeared into the deepest black hole of history. But January 27 is also the day we remember our roots, because Europe was born from the rejection of anti-Semitism, racism, and all autocracies.

On Sunday, January 25th, at 3:30 pm, the Carreum Potentia cultural volunteer organization is organizing a visit to the Jewish Chieri, departing from Piazza Umberto I (info@carreumpotentia.it).

On Tuesday, January 27, at 10:30 a.m., the official commemoration will be held at the Stele at Via Nostra Signora della Scala, number 43, in the presence of Mayor Alessandro Sicchiero and City Council President Federico Ronco. The Stele, the work of Chieri artist Silvio Vigliaturo, commemorates Chieri’s second Jewish cemetery, which operated from approximately 1830 to 1878.

On Thursday, January 29, at 9:00 p.m., the Nicolò and Paola Francone Civic Library (Via Vittorio Emanuele II, 1) will host the conference “Crossing the Camps. Memorial Forms of Deportation and the Holocaust in Europe,” with Elena Pirazzoli (researcher in visual culture, memorial studies, and public history). Moderator: Enrico Manera. Free admission. Organized by Istoreto – Piedmont Institute for the History of the Resistance.

The event poster is available.