27 January

Il Sole 24 ORE Group pays tribute to Remembrance Day

Editorial initiatives on newsstands, radio, online and podcasts

24 January 2026

La copertina della serie podcast “Voci dalla Memoria”, realizzata da Radio 24 e Il Sole 24 Ore in collaborazione con l’Associazione Figli della Shoah

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On the occasion of the Day of Remembrance 2026, the Il Sole 24 ORE Group is proposing a series of editorial initiatives on newsstands, radio and online that will accompany readers and listeners among testimonies, stories, reportages and essays in order not to forget.

To mark this annual appointment with history, Il Sole 24 Ore presents the unpublished book La memoria restituita. Storie di imprenditori e dirigenti ebrei nell'Italia delle leggi razziali, written by Germano Maifreda with a preface by David Bidussa. A book that tackles one of the darkest pages of Italian history, from a point of view that has been little investigated so far: the economic persecution of Jews during Fascism. Not just lives, but assets: from 1938 to 1945 thousands of businesses, land, buildings and movable property were confiscated, marking a wound that still questions our civil conscience today.

The book reconstructs the workings of the 1938 racial lawsand their impact on the national productive fabric. Alongside regulatory and comparative analysis with other European countries, the book gives voice to life stories of entrepreneurs and managers overwhelmed by persecution. Among them, that of Giorgio Ascarelli, founder of A.C. Napoli and protagonist of the textile industry, symbol of a modernity that does not save; Oscar Sinigaglia, father of the Italian steel industry, between modernisation and marginalisation; Togo Mizrahi, pioneer of Egyptian cinema and cultural mediator between the shores of the Mediterranean; Angelo Donati, the banker who rescued thousands of Jews in occupied France, weaving diplomatic and financial networks; and Camillo Castiglioni, the cosmopolitan financier, between rise, fall and persecution. These biographies are not simply individual portraits, but mirrors of an era: testimonies of how social success and patriotism were not enough to protect against racial hatred.

The book interweaves economic history, law and memory, showing how racial persecution was not onlya crime against individuals, but also against property, business and labour. It is a work that restores to the collective consciousness a forgotten truth: the Shoah was not only physical extermination, but also economic destruction, the cancellation of skills and capital that had contributed to the modernisation of the country.

The book is in bookshops from Friday 16 Januaryat the price of €16.90 and on newsstands, for one month, from Saturday 24 January 2026at the cost of €12.90 (in addition to the price of the newspaper).

24 HOURS Podcast presents a new episode of the "Voices from Memory" podcast series, produced by Radio 24 and Il Sole 24 Orein collaboration with the Associazione Figli della Shoah. The new episode, by Radio 24 journalist Elisabetta Fiorito, is dedicated to Attilio Lattes, the child who saved himself by escaping into the sewers of Rome. In this episode of Voices of Memory, the story of Attilio Lattes, who was two years old on 16 October 1943, the day of the raid on the Jews of Rome. In Viale Angelico, where the family was staying, the doorman made them hide in a cellar of the building and then they escaped into the sewers to re-emerge two hours later in Monte Mario. But the nightmare was not yet over. Attilio Lattes is now over 80 years old, he goes to schools to tell his story, he is a guide at the Shoah Museum Foundation in Rome. So on the Day of Remembrance another story joins "Voices of Remembrance", the podcast series with the stories of Shoah survivors. Powerful and precious voices, collected and narrated by those who want the past not to be forgotten. From Sami Modiano to Edith Bruch, from the Sisters Bucci to Giorgio Mohlo up to Senator Liliana Segre. Alongside the voices of witnesses and family members, the episodes also include a special in-depth look at the liberation of Auschwitz edited by Elisabetta Fiorito, whose podcast La razzia - Cinque storie dal ghetto di Roma is also available on Radio24

On this page it is possible to consult the Italian map of the so-called"stumbling stones", a European project commissioned by the German artist Gunter Demning that began in the 1990s and since then has seen the laying of small stone blocks the size of a cobblestone, above which is placed a brass plaque bearing the name, surname, date of birth, day and place of deportation and date of death of the victims of Nazi extermination or persecution such as Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and dissidents persecuted for their political views, religion, sexual orientation or skin colour, taken to die in concentration camps. They are found in front of the houses where the victims of Nazism lived or even where they were taken prisoner. The map of stumbling stones in Italy compiled over the years by Il Sole 24 Ore, is the result of information gathering work by journalist Maria Luisa Colledani with the help of the Associazione Figli della Shoah and many other Italian associations. To date, the Italian map counts more than 1,300 stones, an absolutely important number and one that makes it the most comprehensive in Europe.

On air on Radio 24, in addition, this year's Remembrance Day will be narrated during Radio 24.
To close the initiatives, on Wednesday 4 February, the event "MEMORY" will be broadcast on the Sole 24 Ore website, starting at 10:30 a.m., at the Conservatorio di Musica G. Verdi of Milan. The event, dedicated to students of the third grade of secondary school and all the classes of the second grade of secondary school, will propose a concert of Klezmer music by the students of the Conservatory of Milan, followed by testimonies and reflections by Gadi Luzzatto, Historian and Director of the Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea (CDEC) in Milan.

All the initiatives for the Day of Remembrance can be consulted at ilsole24ore.com/giornodellamemoria.