Future Memories: Lotoro's journey in search of music written in concentration camps continues in Italy.

Francesco Lotoro con Gianna, Elena e Cecilia Armellini Genazzani

Francesco Lotoro's journey in search of music composed in concentration camps and other places of civilian and military captivity around the world between 1933 and 1953 continued in Florence, Italy. The project "Future Memories: Lotoro's Journey to Save the Lost Music," of which this journey is also part, is promoted by the Fondazione Istituto di Letteratura Musicale Concentrazionaria ETS and supported by the Claims Conference (New York), the Puglia Region, the Rothschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe (London), and the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (Paris) . The journey was undertaken together with Grazia Tiritiello, vice president of the ILMC Foundation.

In the photos on the left: Lotoro with an operetta by David Genazzani, with the composer's daughters, a youthful photo of Genazzani

A meeting took place in Florence with Gianna, Elena, and Cecilia Armellini Genazzani, daughters and granddaughter, respectively, of the Italian-Jewish violinist and composer David Genazzani , deported to Dachau and died there from an infection contracted following the bite of one of the camp's guard dogs. Genazzani wrote nothing in the camp, but an operetta written before his deportation exists; Genazzani's daughters have donated a copy to the ILMC Foundation; the meeting was filmed, and the Genazzani sisters have provided valuable documentary material.