AND Manuela Ghizzoni the new President of the Fossoli Foundation, the ememorial organization that manages the Fossoli Camp, the Monument to the Deported Persons Museum and the former Carpi Synagogue. He takes over from Pierluigi Castagnetti, who has led the Foundation for the past two terms. Vice President has been confirmed Maria Cleofe Filippiwhile counselors are Andrea Ballestrazzi, Fabio Montella And Marco Steiner.
A historian and researcher at the University of Bologna, Ghizzoni was also Councilor for Cultural Policies of the Municipality of Carpi, as well as, as a parliamentarian, President of the Culture and Education Commission at the Chamber of Deputies. During your parliamentary mandate you were particularly committed to policies in favor of knowledge, education and training, as they are decisive resources for the social, civil and economic development of the country. She was also vice-president of the Ferruccio Parri National Institute – Network of Institutes for the history of the Resistance and the contemporary age. Please note that, according to the Statute, the Municipality of Carpi is responsible for appointing three Councilors (Ghizzoni, Montella and Steiner), while one Councilor each belongs to the CR Carpi Foundation and the Friends of the Museum Monument to the Deported Persons Association (Ballestrazzi and Filippi respectively) . “I am honored – byclear Manuela Ghizzoni – to be able to represent the Fossoli Foundation, an important and precious reality, not only at an Italian level. Of course, if the entity gode of attention and recognition at a European level, is due to the importance and uniqueness of the sites that it is called upon to protect and enhance, to the constant research work and the tireless dissemination work that has been carried out over the years by impulse of President Castagnetti, to whom I extend my heartfelt thanks for the results achieved, as well as of the staff, led by Director Marzia Luppi. Together with Vice President Filippi and the advisors Ballestrazzi, Montella and Steiner we will continue to carry forward, animated by the passion of Memory, but without ever renouncing the rigor of history, the values of democracy, freedom and humanity that precisely in Fossoli, in the abyss of the second world conflict and the Shoah, have been able to germinate. Our attention will be directed to supporting cultural interventions so as not to forget what happens when these fundamental principles fail, which must be defended, now more than ever, in a world and in a Europe in which worrying winds of war and hatred are once again blowing powerfully ”.
