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

Francesco Lotoro ritira a Roma alcuni dipinti della Collezione Roberto Malini

This time, Francesco Lotoro's research partially changes focus, turning from music composed in concentration camps and other places of civilian and military captivity around the world to art that bears witness to the tragedy of the Holocaust, bringing him to Rome . The project "Future Memories. Lotoro's Journey to Save the Lost Music," of which this journey is also a 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), the Righteous Persons Foundation (Los Angeles), and the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (Paris) .

In recent days, Lotoro arrived in the capital in a van from Giga Viaggi of Trani equipped with special spaces to transport to Barletta 75 (seventy-five) paintings by Shimon Balitsky, Moshe Fishon, Regina Mundlak, Simcha Nornberg, Jakob Vassover, and other Jewish artists persecuted during the Holocaust . These paintings were recovered by the writer and art researcher Roberto Malini , a member of the ILMC Foundation. The paintings were temporarily housed in some rooms of the Shoah Museum in Rome , which was in charge of their safekeeping. Due to technical issues, it was not possible to recover one last painting by Vassover, so on September 26, 2023, he and Grazia Tiritiello will make another trip to Rome to retrieve it, using a special container for large paintings.

In the photos: Francesco Lotoro recovers in Rome the paintings of the Malini Collection, some paintings by Jacob Vassover, the portraits of the artists Regin Mundlak and Simcha Nornberg