Metadata: Group 7 - Women for Peace
Collection
- Country:
- Italy
- Holding institution:
- Mantua State Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archivio di Stato di Mantova
- Postal address:
- via Roberto Ardigò 11, 46100 Mantova
- Phone number:
- +39 376324441
- Web address:
- http://www.asmantova.beniculturali.it
- Email:
- as-mn@beniculturali.it
- Reference number:
- 245
- Title:
- Group 7 - Women for Peace
- Title (official language):
- Gruppo 7 - Donne per la pace
- Date(s):
- 1969-2002
- Date note:
- Fonds also includes documents until 2008.
- Language:
- Italian
- Extent:
- 39 boxes
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Audio
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection comprises documents regarding the activities of the group, some of which are related to Judaism. Folder no. 1 contains three tapes with recordings of talks given by Roberto Lorenzoni about “ebraismo” (Jewish history and culture). Folder no. 2 has a video and other materials about the “Peace summer camp”, hold in Certe Ostie (Borgo Angeli, Mantua) in 1992, with the names of the six Israeli, seven Palestinian and seven Italian girls who took part in it (see also folder no. 6). Documents about the meetings about Ravensbrück are in folder no. 8. Some Jewish women were involved in the activities of the Group 7, such as Anna Di Cori, Anna Colorni, Ida Finzi, Gabriella Finzi and Clara Sereni (see folder no. 2 of the sub-fonds “Annarosa Enzi Baratta” and folder no. 1 of the sub-fonds “Catia Lucchini Beltrami”).
- Archival history:
- For historical information about the holding institution, the State Archive of Mantua, see http://guidagenerale.maas.ccr.it/document.aspx?uri=/istituticonservatori/IC0460022101
- Administrative/biographical history:
-
"Gruppo 7 – Donne per la pace" (Group 7 – Women for Peace) was established in Mantua in 1992, when different kind of political parties and associations gathered together to protest against the Gulf War. The seven women who established the movement (Maria Bacchi, Annarosa Enzi Baratta, Maria Attilia Ferrari, Catia Lucchini Beltrami, Gabriella Pauletti, Teresa Rabitti Cancellieri) were particularly interested in the relationship between women and war, and between memory and history. In 1992 they organised a “Peace summer camp” in Mantua for Italian, Israeli and Palestinian girls. In 1996 they interviewed female survivors of Ravensbrück concentration camp and in 1999 they presented the book “Le donne di Ravensbrück” (Ravensbrück’s Women). Maria Bacchi is the author of the book “Cercando Luisa” (“In search for Luisa”), about the youngest Mantuan Jewish deportee, Luisa Levi.
See http://san.beniculturali.it/web/san/dettaglio-complesso-documentario?step=dettaglio&codiSanCompl=san.cat.complArch.31177&idSogc=&id=31177
- Access points: locations:
- Mantua
- Ravensbrück
- Subject terms:
- Arab-Israeli conflict
- Education
- Yerusha Network member:
- Contemporary Jewish Documentation Center - Milan
- Author of the description:
- Samuela Marconcini; Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea; 2018
