I am part of the Director of the Historical Institute of the Valle d'Aosta and I wanted to try something We show up on the internet was given to the lot this time (Torino 27/1-20/3/2010), to which the Institute has worked, and I hit the review and the letter of Luciana Nissim Momigliano.
struck me because in a world like this where it seems to exist that we should go on television, we should reflect publicly display such as that made by a woman who suffered from pain but has been able to draw strength and integrity .. good read
small place - Adriano Sofri - Il Foglio
Luciana Nissim Momigliano (1919-1998) was a young graduate in medicine when, in December 1943, was arrested with a group of supporters of the Action Party and deported to Auschwitz. She just went back and Primo Levi. Now Giuntina republish, enriched with other writings and memoirs, the story that Luciana published in 1946, a rare example of one of the early testimony of the returnees. Luciana later became a pediatrician, founded the asylum Olivetti in Ivrea, now a leading psychoanalyst. I would highly recommend the book, but I want to bring here a letter he wrote in 1945 to Luciana Franco Momigliano, former partisan and prestigious economist, who a year later would become her husband. This letter gave me a great impression that I do not try to explain: I would just make you participate. Here:
"Biella, August 14, 1945
I should respond to one million of letters waiting for me at home, and instead of doing it here I'm going to write to you, Franco. It is not to send a message of love, but for me to tell you something important. Yesterday I met by chance, in Turin, a dear girl Yugoslav refugee in Asti, who had met in Auschwitz - she is good and sweet and has been with me on the field, once a rare generosity. I was perfectly happy to see her was so incredible to go for a walk in Turin sit together in a restaurant, it was so good to be alive! And then she has repeatedly said this - that two of her friends, including Yugoslavia, come with me Fossoli, continued to tell her how I had been always kind and generous, and that she is known more fully the environment there, and especially the nurses, was telling myself that 'I had been honest in the field'. And 'no good? In fact I am there, I had more ease of movement, grace of my profession, I was practically the only one that would serve as a trait-a link between the Italian, who could give news of the sick and possibly send out something - all of which seem very natural . But there were extremely difficult - besides the fact that nobody took the trouble to do something for others. I confess I was afraid that the proceedings of the companies would return - I was in a privileged position, and I was afraid that, looking back now, they found that I had not done what I could. But no - I have remained honest, said Lisa, and they often regret I have, and always spoke to me after my departure. I am very proud, and after that I was induced to make some observations. Do not you quit an experience like this, without the legacy of precise duties to themselves and to others. I do not believe that God has saved me from Auschwitz that I should set an example to the world - but I feel like an adventure this must mean something. When I left by Grimm, a French greeting, I said, 'and make good use of freedom, now that he knows the value '... phrase that I constantly run in, to tell of the duties and tasks. I think I'll accomplish them but I would like you to serve as a mirror and censor, when I fell in the trivial, or conventional, or worse, the dishonest. So you understand why this, which is not a love letter, could not be written other than you. I have no ambition, so I'm not going to go far - just for me to be your girlfriend, Franco, who do you a long way - and you must not miss my expectation - but I always try to be a good person, and if possible, something more. "
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