Il civico giusto

‘Il Civico Giusto’ was born from the idea of publicizing those actions, gratuitous and altruistic, that protected many persecuted people, Jews, political fugitives and people who were enemies of the Nazi-Fascist regime. There were men and women who hid these people in their homes, workplaces, wherever they could find safe refuge, rescuing them from a fate of imprisonment, confinement and death, risking their own lives to do so. Even memory and its examples, however, risk being buried in the silence of history, ceasing to exist. Those gestures, however, changed destinies and lives and thus sowed the world.

THE SIGN

The ‘Civico Giusto’ has the ambition to bring those ‘trees’ back to their neighbourhoods and homes, so that their fruits may ripen in the consciences of new generations and sow new seeds of solidarity, inclusion and brotherhood.

THE PROCESS

‘Roma BPA - Mamma Roma e I suoi figli migliori’, organizer of the project, in collaboration with the national network of schools ‘Memorie. Una città, mille storie', promotes the collection and classification of the stories of these men and women. Stories that, after careful and rigorous scientific validation of the sources, will form the heart of ‘Il Civico Giusto’. Connected to the project is a ‘History Workshop’ which trains teachers and students on the analysis of sources. The workshop is held by renowned academics and archivists, experts in written and oral sources. It is in fact the school students, assisted by their tutor teachers, who reconstruct the stories of those courageous people who lived in the same neighbourhoods, thus creating a very strong link between the old and new generations, between oral and documentary sources and the new form of media.

RESEARCH

The approach, both in the shaping of the story and in the training of the students, is based on extreme historical rigour and a careful analysis of the sources. For this reason, the project relies on a team of scholars, experts in the fields of history and archives.

THE PALACE TELLS ITS OWN STORY

The artistic bronze tile, created by the artist Dante Mortet, depicts a house containing a carob tree, symbol of abundance. The tree reminds of the many of them planted in the various ‘Gardens of the Righteous’ around the world. Thus, it is placed on the gates of those who made the decision not to turn away. The tile has imprinted on its surface a QR code that will allow the building to tell its own story, reliving those years through a purposefully created mini documentary built on the foundations previously illustrated. Being born as a popular and collective memory project, Il Civico Giusto sees the involvement of many realities from the world of culture and historical research. This is the reason why numerous actors support the project by ‘lending’ their voices to the narration of the stories. These are some of the protagonist voices of the Civici produced so far: Elio Germano, Neri Marcoré, Enzo Decaro, Giovanni Scifoni, Angela Finocchiaro, Roberto Ciufoli, Massimo Wertmuller, Monica Guerritore, Corrado Augias, Alessio Boni, Valerio Mastandrea, Pietro Sermonti. The theme song accompanying the credits is ‘Non tutti gli uomini’, kindly provided by singer-songwriter Luca Barbarossa.

THE TEAM

-Ideazione, progettazione e organizzazione Paolo Masini -Team di ricerca storica Michele Di Sivo Maria Grazia Lancellotti Antonella Rossi Tiziano Gianandrea -Videomaker Mirko Bertarelli

Un grazie speciale a Fabrizio Fantera figlio di Bruno, giusto d’Israele, senza il quale questo forse non sarebbe mai cominciato