Fondazione Museo Della Shoah
The Shoah Museum is a proposed museum in Rome, Italy. Upon completion, it would be the first Holocaust museum in Italy. History The museum was first proposed as Italy's first museum about the Holocaust in 2005. In 2012, the Rome City Council approved the final plans for the museum. However, expected funding from the city was blocked due to austerity spending directives. The city of Rome planned to pay for the museum's $30 million construction cost. As of 2013, Italian Holocaust scholar was slated to serve as the museum's inaugural director. Pezzetti headed the committee overseeing the museum's exhibition and research facilities. Pezzetti told the ''Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Jewish Telegraph Agency'' in 2013 that he wanted the museum to " “insert the Holocaust in the Italian context into the Holocaust in the European context." After years of delays due to bureaucratic and financial issues. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano alloca ...
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Holocaust
The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out in pogroms and mass shootings; by a policy of extermination through labor in concentration camps; and in gas chambers and gas vans in German extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, and Treblinka in occupied Poland. Germany implemented the persecution in stages. Following Adolf Hitler's appointment as chancellor on 30 January 1933, the regime built a network of concentration camps in Germany for political opponents and those deemed "undesirable", starting with Dachau on 22 March 1933. After the passing of the Enabling Act on 24 March, which gave Hitler dictatorial plenary powers, the government bega ...
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