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

Francesco Lotoro alla Stazione di Napoli Centrale

Francesco Lotoro 's journey in search of music composed in concentration camps and other places of civilian and military captivity around the world continues in 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), the Righteous Persons Foundation (Los Angeles), and the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah (Paris) . The journey was undertaken together with Grazia Tiritiello , vice president of the ILMC Foundation.

The trip was primarily aimed at finding valuable book material at stalls and antiquarian bookshops . The visit to the well-known bookshops in the Port'Alba district was particularly thorough and fruitful, where it was possible to find unobtainable volumes on 20th-century history and collections of drawings made by partisans in concentration camps.

After a few days it was the turn of the transfer to Bologna , where the antiquarian bookshops surrounding Piazza Grande were examined, which led to the recovery of precious encyclopedic publications on Italian Jews, with biographical materials very useful for the ongoing research.