its significance but it's definitely a punch in the stomach to find a letter with a swastika and heil hitler in the signature among old family photos. the buildings are directed by the fascists here and carbone are still standing. the town has done a thorough job of preserving the old architecture but has had less success securing new jobs. the coal mine is closed the industrial plant deserted. it's a place as francesca told me there is a sleep a town built for work for now there is none. what i learned about my grandfather is that he believed in the fascist ideals yes building a new italy but doing so by suppressing personal freedoms and using violence against anyone who didn't fit in with those ideals he knew about this since in gay people being sent to us punishment he implemented the racial laws by banning books and films by jewish authors and he knew about the dismissal of jewish workers in the future within a system that does that and you don't speak out you are responsible you are complicit. the arab. league. matthew salvini is one of italy's strongest political forces its rise has be

gabrielle rosenfeld, some of you know him, wrote the book heil hitler, about how hitler is being normalized in the media. how films give us our images and memories, whether you are "saving private ryan," or "the longest day," how those are films that create a public memory and is not. how much is myth and how much is not? there will be a whole section on the holocaust. sara bloomfield from the holocaust museum and the director of the anne frank house from amsterdam. so it is going to be -- we call this memory wars because these are wars, and there are some countries where rising national populist regimes are trying to change history and to spin it behind the current narratives of their own country, and even how videogames are shaping our views of world war ii among our young. and ben mackiewicz, whom you know from classic turner movies, the host of that show, will be here to host the last session which will be about how film has shaped world war ii. ron from china. it is going to be a tremendous, one-of-a-kind conference. nobody no museum in the world , has done anything like this. we are t

it's the kid who snaps a heil hitler salute for a gag, it's the swastikas scrawled on a garage door, the college campuses where jewish students are ostracized for supporting israel. this moment is about women wearing wig, harassed as they ride the subway. it's about men in black hats assaulted as they cross the street. it's the idea that a person isn't safe in their supermarket, in their synagogue, or in their home just because they are jewish. in fact, in adl's most recent audit of anti-semitic incidents, we recorded more than 1800 acts in 2018, the third highest total we've seen in 40 years. the results came on the heels of our 2017 audit, which documented a 57% surge over the prior year. the largest on record. and in 2019, in new york city alone, there were more anti-jewish hate crimes than all the other hate crimes put together. now, it may surprise you, that this increase is happening against a backdrop of steadily, relatively low levels of anti-semitic attitudes among the general population. that is, our fellow americans aren't hating more but there is a growing group of people

it's the kid who snaps a heil hitler salute for a gag, it's the swas scrawled on a garage door, the college campuses where jewish students are ostracized for supporting israel. this moment is about women wearing wig, harassed as they ride the subway. it's about men in black hats assaulted as they cross the street. it's the idea that a person isn't safe in their supermarket, in their synagogue, or in their home, just because they are jewish. in fact, in adl's most recent audit of anti-semitic incidents, we recorded more than 1800 acts in 2018, the third highest tote thal we've seen in 40 years. the results came on the heels of our 2017 audit, which documented a 57% surge over the prior year. the largest on record. and in 2019, in new york city alone, there were more anti-jewish hate crimes than all the other hate crimes put together. now, it may surprise you, that this increase is happening against a backdrop of steadily, relatively low levels of anti-semitic attitudes among the general population. that is, our fellow americans aren't hating more but there is a growing group of people who ar