San Francisco, California
"The Holocaust in Southern Europe"

Funded by:

  • The National Endowment for the Humanities (U. S. Government)
  • NIAF Mid Pacific Region
  • Shalom Italia and Amici dell'Italia
  • Holocaust Center of Northern California
  • The Consulate General of Italy
  • American Jewish Committee
  • Italian American Cultural Center

Survivor Ginetta Sagan, Actor Robert Loggia and survivor Zdenka LevyThe Jewish-Christian history of Italy was presented with special guest Robert Loggia. Actor Robert Loggia discussed his film "Triumph of the Spirit," which presented the treatment of Jews in Salonika, Greece. Other survivors included Ginetta Sagan, co-founder of Amnesty International and Joan Baez and Ginetta SaganZdenka Levi of Yugoslavia. In addition to a presentation of the "Assissi Underground" film which showed the falsification of papers for Jews by Father Pacifici, a Passover Dinner was served in the framework of Shalom Italia. Over 12 organizations collaborated in this successful program which ended with a screening of the film, "A Debt to Honor."