Event details

Archivio di Stato – piazzetta Mollino, 1, Torino

Wednesday 04.02.2026 16:30

Organizers

  • Archivio di Stato di Torino,
  • Comunità ebraica Torino,
  • Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura,
  • Fondazione di Studi Storici Gaetano Salvemini,
  • Archivio nazionale cinematografico della Resistenza di Torino,

Silvio Ottolenghi, photographer and witness (1886–1953)

Among the pioneers of photojournalism in Turin, Silvio Ottolenghi chronicled his time with a sharp and informed gaze. His motto, “Nothing escapes my lens,” effectively conveys the power of photography as a document, a testimony, a memory. The racist laws of 1938 hit him and his family hard: forced to leave his business and his city, he endured persecution and painful losses.

Speakers:
Silvia Guetta (Università di Firenze)
Chiara Quaranta (Soprintendenza Archivistica e Bibliografica del Piemonte e della Valle d’Aosta)
Dario Taraborrelli (Archivista, Bologna)
Paola Traversi (Archivio Storico della Città di Torino)

Collateral event to the “Seeing Auschwitz” exhibition, organized to mark the Holocaust Remembrance Day celebrations by the Turin State Archives, the Jewish Community of Turin, the 1563 Foundation for Art and Culture, the Gaetano Salvemini Foundation for Historical Studies, and the National Film Archive of the Resistance of Turin.
Free admission, subject to availability.

The flyer is available