VORTRAG: Brasilianer im antifaschistischen Kampf - Vom Spanischen Bürgerkrieg bis zur Befreiung Italiens

An accompanying event as part of the exhibition "The Third World in the Second World War" at the NS Documentation Center.

See also The Third World in the Second World War

With: Luis de Oliveira (Barga/Italy) and
Marcia de Oliveira Ramalho (Cologne)

Admission 4.50 | 2 euros (reduced), registration via nsdok.de, Events

Luis de Oliveira was born in Brazil and worked there as a journalist before emigrating to Italy, the country where his grandparents come from. When he settled in Barga, a small Tuscan mountain town in the Apuan Alps, he realized that nothing there reminded him of the contribution that 25,000 Brazilian soldiers made to the liberation of this region during the Second World War in the fight against the German Wehrmacht. He therefore searched for documents and testimonies about the Brazilian missions in Tuscany and finally opened a small museum on his own initiative: the Casa Brasile in Toscana. It contains memorabilia on the role of the Força Expedicionária Brasilieira (FEB) in Italy, some of which are also on display in the NS-Dok to complement the exhibition.

Marcia de Oliveira Ramalho is chairwoman of the Cologne-Rio twinning association and will use the example of an uncle to remind us that Brazilians also fought on the side of the Republicans against fascism during the Spanish Civil War.

In cooperation with: Casa Brasile in Toscana (Barga, Italy); Informationsstelle Lateinamerika (ila, Bonn); Köln-Rio-Städtepartnerschaftsverein e.V.