Research: Lebensunwertes Leben. Transgenerational memory of Aktion T4 in the victims’ families
Education:
2020 - Doctoral candidate at Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung, TU Berlin. Cotutelle with La Sapienza University of Rome.
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum, Prof. Emmanuel Betta.
2019 - Internship, Friedrich Meinecke Institut, Freie Universität Berlin.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Arnd Bauerkämper.
2019 - Master degree in Contemporary History at La Sapienza University of Rome, grading 110/110 cum laude.
2015 - Bachelor degree in Medieval, Modern and Contemporary History at
La Sapienza University of Rome, grading 110/110 cum laude.
2014 - Summer University in Jewish Studies at Humboldt-Universität and at Leo Baeck Institut, grading A level, Berlin.
2013 - Course “Medicina e Shoah” (Medicine and Shoah), organized by the Shoah Museum Foundation of Rome and by the Medical Faculty of La Sapienza University of Rome.
2006 - Internship, Archivio Storico della Comunità Ebraica di Roma (Historical Archive of the Jewish Community of Rome).
Supervisor: Prof. Claudio Procaccia.
2005 - Course “Teaching the Shoah”, Cultural Center of Jewish Community of Rome.
Language skills:
Italian: native speaker
English: C1 level
German: B2 level
Hebrew: A1 level
Conferences:
May 2020: “Holocaust Research in Challenging Times: An Online Conference of Holocaust Researchers” hosted by Western Galilee college.
June 2018: Convention about Angelo Di Cave, war witness, in Ladispoli (RM).
January 2017: Convention about Liliana Fornari, war witness, in Ladispoli (RM).
May 2016: Conference “Storia e Storie:memorie di guerra e responsabilità storiche” (“History and Stories: memories of war and historical responsibility”), in Coreno Ausonio (FR).
January 2014: Convention “Auschwitz: Ricordare, Conoscere, Testimoniare” (“Auschwitz: to remember, to know, to testify”) organized by the Historical Institute for the study of the Contemporary Umbria, in Terni (TR) and in Nocera Umbra (PG).
October 2013: Conference “Warum Piero Terracina sein Schweigen brach”, at the Martin Luther Universität von Halle-Wittenberg and at the Kulturstiftung in Erlangen.
June 2013: Conference “La memoria è il nostro futuro” (“Memory is our
future”), with Piero Terracina, Auschwitz survivor and Matteo Corradini, writer, at Degli Atti Theatre in Rimini.
June 2008: Conference with the German writer Helga Schneider, to the Literature Festival Mare di Libri, in Rimini.
January 2008: Conference during the Prima Settimana Internazionale di Cultura Ebraica (First International Week of Jewish Culture) in Siracusa.
2007: Conference at Fiera del Libro di Bologna (Bologna Book Fair).
Publications:
books:
- Il commerciante di bottoni, Rizzoli BUR, Milano, 2007, 2017, 2020.
- Warum Piero Terracina sein Schweigen brach. Von Rom nach Auschwitz, with R. Buchenhorst, Rav Dr. R. Di Segni, M. Kaufmann, W. Nell, A. Pomplun, G. Veltri, W. Veltroni, Erich Weiß Verlag, Bamberg, 2013.
essays:
-Lebensunwertes Leben: Roots and Memory of Aktion T4, in “Conatus Journal of Philosophy”, 4(2, special issue: Bioethics and the Holocaust), 2019, pp. 65-82.
-Wilhelm Werner’s life unworthy of life: a voice from the Nazi Euthanasia Program, in “Hektoen International”, Spring 2019 [https://hekint.org/2019/05/15/wilhelm-werners-life-unworthy-of-life-a-voice-from-the-nazi-euthanasia-program/].
-Memorie in lotta. Berlino, città-museo della distruzione, in “Roots Routes”, IX, May-August 2019, n. 30, [ https://www.roots-routes.org/memorie-in-lotta-berlino-citta-museo-della-distruzione-di-erika-silvestri/ ].