Fondazione Memoriale This publication has been made possible thanks to the contribution of della Shoah Guides What the Memorial is Fondazione Memoriale della Shoah was founded in 2007 with the objective of creating a “workshop of memory” in Milan. The final plans, by Morpurgo de Curtis Architetti The nonprofit organization Milano Loves You was founded SHOAH Associati, were presented in 2008 on the occasion of in 2012 by the publishers of “Where® Milan” with the the agreement signed between the Ferrovie dello Stato purpose of publicizing and promoting on the international MEMORIAL (Italian State Railways) and the Fondazione Memoriale level the excellence of the Milan area in tourism, culture della Shoah. The first stone was laid on 26 January 2010 and commerce. and the “heart” of the Memorial was inaugurated on 27 OF MILAN January 2013: entrance hall, Wall of Indifference, access www.milanolovesyou.com ramp, Place of Reflection, four original railcars restored by the Milan section of the Italian Railway Engineers, stone The Memorial to the Shoah of Milan has been created in a plaques recording the dates and destinations of the hidden part of the Central Station, beneath the main track level, deportation trains, and the spiral stairway to the sublevel originally designed for loading and unloading the mail with where the auditorium and public facilities are located. “Where® Milan” is an integrated communication tool for direct access from Via Ferrante Aporti. Between 1943 and 1945, Work is still in progress on the library, the permanent reaching international visitors in Milan. far from prying eyes, this was where hundreds of deportees – installations, the support facilities and the north entrance. Where® is the trademark of the international group most of them Jews – were forced onto livestock cars. With their MVP-Morris Visitor Publications of Augusta (Georgia), human cargo, these cars were then rolled into a huge elevator world leader in visitor publishing. and lifted up to the rail yard above. Positioned on the tracks, the A DONATION TO COMPLETE THE MEMORIAL cars were then assembled into trains, ready to depart for the You can donate by www.wheremilan.com – [email protected] concentration camps (Bergen Belsen), Italian deportation camps – credit transfer to: (Fossoli or Bolzano) or death camps (Auschwitz-Birkenau). Fondazione Memoriale della Shoah di Milano ONLUS The site of the Milan Memorial is unique among places of the account at Banca Prossima Shoah in Europe in that it has remained substantially unchanged IBAN: IT87L 0335901600100000119090 from its original form. The Memorial was designed by the studio Please write on the payment memo if you do not want your Morpurgo de Curtis Architetti Associati with the idea of creating name listed among the contributors to the Memorial. MLY_Guides - Shoah Memorial of Milan a space that “reminds us to remember”, rendering homage to – By Paypal or credit card: Supplement to “Where® Milan” the victims of the slaughter and representing a living, dialectical www.memorialeshoah.it/english/form.php Reg. Trib. Milano n. 453, 19 July 2010. space in which the tragedy of the Shoah can be actively re- Managing Editor: Andrea Jarach elaborated. Editing and layout: Proedi Editore It is a place of commemoration, but also a space for building Via E. 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