During his ten-year career, Silvio Ottolenghi (1886-1953) produced an impressive number of images, so much so that they literally permeated the city's imagination. Not only did his motto “nothing escapes my lens” remain deeply rooted in the collective memory, but his photographs, following the most tortuous paths, have survived the years and reached the present day.
The racial laws of 1938 hit him and his family hard: forced to leave his business and his city, he suffered persecution and painful losses.
The meeting, organised on the occasion of the Holocaust Remembrance Day celebrations by the State Archives of Turin, the Jewish Community of Torino, the 1563 Foundation for Art and Culture, the Gaetano Salvemini Foundation for Historical Studies, and the National Film Archive of the Resistance in Torino, is part of the calendar of events accompanying the exhibition Seeing Auschwitz.