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A tribute to the power of memory: Christiana Ruggeri (RAI2) talks about her Holocaust novel La lista di carbone
The journalist and author presents her book, published by Giunti, a story of our times which takes us back to the Nazi concentration camps, with a video she shot herself especially for our Institute’s audience.
In English
5’03”
Available on our Vimeo channel from 26 January
Following her involvement in drug dealing, university student Anna Biren’s rehabilitation programme means she will need to work at the bookshop in the Jewish Ghetto in Rome, for free, for a year. A friendship and mutual respect develops between her and the bookshop’s elderly owner, Christina Hauffman, a Jew of German origin, shy and reserved. One day Anna comes across Christina’s old letters to her boyfriend of 50 years before, Heinrich, a German Jew like her, who, with the rest of his family, had been interned in the notorious Nazi camp Sachsenhausen. Anna decides to find out more and embarks on a quest that will take her to Germany, in pursuit of a secret dossier.