In Venice, the 13th edition of Memorial Day is celebrated with approximately fifty initiatives, promoted by the City of Venice and based on the work of many associations and institutions, to commemorate the Shoah (extermination of the Jewish people), the racial laws, the Nazi persecution resulted of the extermination of eleven million people, including Jews, homosexuals, political opponents and military internees.

The focal point of the event is the ceremony Sunday January 27 at the Teatro Goldoni, which involves both the mayor and the president of the Jewish Community in Venice, Amos Luzzatto. The ceremony remembers, with a play, Giuseppe Jona, who committed suicide in 1943, refusing to hand over the list of Venetian Jews to the fascists and to the German occupiers.

Among other events planned, the delivery of the flag of the Roma to the local representatives of the Council of Europe, which will add to that of the 47 European countries (27 January); the experience of the Venetian military internees after September 8 '43 in Germany (January 29); the screening of the documentary Paragraph 175 on the persecution of homosexuals (January 30).