The Embassy of Italy and the Canadian Film Institute will observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day with a première screening in the National Capital of the documentary “Fifty Italians – The men who saved 50,000 Jewish lives”
directed by Flaminia Lubin.
The film tells the story of how 50 high-ranking Italian diplomats and generals played a key role in helping 50,000 Jews in the territories occupied by Italy’s Armed Forces – Yugoslavia, Greece and the South of France – escape Hitler’s “final solution”.
The documentary, which follows events from 1940 until the armistice between Italy and the Allies on September 8, 1943, will be screened on Tuesday, January 27, at 8 pm, at Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa.
Admission is free.
