The Rimini Family

Starting January 21, 2024, the Jewish Museum of Bologna will host the exhibition "The Rimini Family. Stories of emigration, deportations, escapes and solidarity": curated by Francesca Panozzo and Caterina Quareni, the documentary exhibition is based on research conducted by the Jewish Museum on a family divided into four branches and the different fates that these family branches experienced in the face of the "persecution of lives," after September 8, 1943.Thus emerges the historical picture of an Italy subjected to the fascist dictatorship.

The exhibition aims to engage visitors by bringing them back to the reality of people who actually lived, reminding them that anti-Semitism is a sentiment and line of thought to whose allure even Italians have succumbed and may, as a result, fall again. 

The texts in the exhibition are the result of research by Francesca Panozzo, MEB's educational services liaison. The extensive photographic collection on display, comes from the private archives of descendants of the Rimini family. Completing the exhibition are interviews by Valentina Arena, filmmaker and researcher, and Cesare Finzi, a child at the time of the events and an escapee from the Shoah, who through his testimony was a key figure in maintaining the memory of the facts related to anti-Jewish persecution.