Marcello Martini was the youngest political deportee to survive the extermination camps. He told us his story, but we wanted to integrate it with the comments of those who lived a life with him, his wife Mariella Meucci and his daughter Alessandra, who remember about him what he always said to young people: don’t follow the bunch, but learn to think with your head.
The true story of Lidia Maksymowicz, the lThe true story of Lidia Maksymowicz begins from afar, when in December 2018 at the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow our guide and interpreter Renata Rychlik introduced us to Lidia Maksymowicz, a lady then 78 years old, one of the last children to leave alive from the shack frequented by Dr. Mengele at Auschwitz-Birkenau. We were looking for direct testimonies to prepare a guide to our projects for schools aimed at making students become “history detectives”. Stories of men and women who had to learn to live with what the terrible experience of the extermination camps leaves inside you forever. And until Lidia told us about her experience in the camp, where she was interned for 13 months when she was only 3 years old, and her first years as a free child our eyes sparkled, but hers seemed like a story like others we had already heard. But from a certain point onwards her story became unique, unrepeatable, extraordinary not only for the events that characterized it, but also and above all for the lucid analysis and reflections that Lidia makes of her life, so raw and at the same time serene, and with a common denominator: no feelings of hatred or revenge. In this revised and updated version of the docufilm, which in its original version is available on the Raiplay platform, also the meetings with Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square and with Fabio Fazio at Che Tempo Che Fa.
