[Music]
how many of us have memories
counted by our parents or grandparents
things that maybe because they are habitual
we gave it the importance that really
They had
I for example keep stories told
for my dad from his childhood in his italy
natal like those carnivals in
treviso in which they disguised themselves and
they painted their faces with burnt corks
once being in full celebration came
a restless friend screaming bruce ebro
how severe they asked severus to the
bed told them they had burned the bed
to my grandparents with a badly off cork
Needless to say, they had to
escape from the house for a few days to the
a relative’s house until my grandfather
his anger went away
or that anecdote of when he died
a creature the custom was that
village boys will carry in the coffin
white to the cemetery
the priest went ahead with the
altar boys and them behind until they
tired of charging they supported the coffin in
They sat down and up to
rest when the priest turned around and
he saw them he wanted to kill them
How are you? Maybe you have many
stories to tell from their parents and
grandparents
the truth is that he spent his childhood and my
dad between mischief and work in the
field since this was the activity
family
his life went on its course until in
1939 World War II broke out
1941 was 21 years old and he decided to go to the
war
replacing a brother who had been
summoned but he was already married he was
single and had no commitments
fought he risked his life day by day in
the battlefield facing
extreme situations that are not humanly
we could understand but
unfortunately necessary for
survive
well it happened two years until in 1943
mussolini is overthrown and the marshal
badoglio successor signs a ministry
with those with the allies declaring the
German war already here changed
completely my dad’s destiny
when the shaft breaks the prisoner of
the Germans and they begin their hardships
is taken in the former Yugoslavia they take it
on foot through the territory with days
of intense rain without food or coats
a walk of approximately 800
kilometers however he remained standing
and survived
so he came to hungary
in hungary along with hundreds of other
prisoners put him on a train and what
They took Austria
in austria he was transferred to a field of
concentration on links where they removed
all your material belongings
curiously the only thing he could keep
It was this fork
that accompanied him all his life and that I
today I have in my hands and I try to
invoke that force to which he will be
closed to this insignificant object
but that in his condition was the only
that he had left to stay together
his family
in the concentration camp what
forced to work in conditions
subhumans
first in a locomotive factory in
where among other things that he suffered was
the fracture of a leg
but this did not stop him they accommodated it
as they could between their peers and
He went ahead then they took him to a
sugar beet sugar and more
forward he worked in the field caring
animals and planting pines
in all these places I worked 12
hours per day for a crust of bread and
a tiny portion of water that barely
enough to drink and wash
they slept in barracks on wooden floor
with small blankets that did not reach
shelter them they managed to warm themselves
putting one against the other
They were raised every day at 5
in the morning they were made into lines and
the guards passed magazine with dogs
if one moved the dogs not the
they bit but were removed from the
training and they were fiercely tipped
beatings
despite everything he always look for the side
positive to things told us by
example that in the sugar factory
they were lucky to take everything sweetened
and when he had to work in the field,
it had gone so badly
they had obviously taken all
your material belongings but what
they could not take away his
internal belongings that strength of
will keep pushing him
I live at some point to return to his
town and reunite with your family
the one to survive adapts to the
circumstances did all the work
that they imposed on him he never said no to anything
because I knew that if I did not come the beating and
I could even disappear
his will kept him alive better said
he saved his life
until one morning the Nazi guards
they did not wake them up
there were no longer Germans guarding the
field nobody told them but the war
it was over and he had regained his
freedom
this was the beginning of the return home
I never knew how many kilometers that way
time and I think he does not know until
that were found by the army
American that I declare free what
they got on a truck and that’s how
return to your beloved italy
when he arrived in his village it was a night
warm of 1945 some guys played in
the door of their house and when they saw it
They ran to tell parents about
that they did not believe him because habitually
they made that kind of jokes when
he entered the room and they saw him not what
they could believe he was very skinny and
unbearable but alive they already gave it
for dead however he came back thanks
to your willpower
the post- liberation period
it was not easy either remember the bad guys
past moments
many could not adapt not knowing
what to do with the recovered freedom
turning over to the drink and not being able
rebuild their lives
with him he had brought the portfolios of
four of his comrades fallen in
combat
and took care of making the arrival to their
families through the parish priest of the town
the horrors of war followed
stalking even in these details
Nonetheless
with that willpower that always
had before the adversities decided to give
turn the page and get ahead and
so it was that without forgetting the past but
doing it on one side in 1948 it came
for Argentina
with a suitcase full of stories and
with the only capital that he had left that
it was his willpower his faith in leaving
forward and if also your fork
here work he met my mom and formed
a family
for me all this was just the
my dad’s life story
he never felt sorry for himself and for
therefore he did not insist on telling what
what had happened to him
for me all this was there I never got
I asked maybe out of respect or maybe
because he did not give him more
transcendence
until my therapist Dr. Laura
Ares here told me the story of victor
franklin an austrian psychiatrist and I
recommended that man read his book
in search of meaning
maybe some of you already know it and
they read it to me although I did not know it
reading I understood that the story of
frank he was very familiar to me
the stories of my own dad
as he progressed in reading
those stories shook me every time
plus
of this book I rescue a phrase in
particular
man is the being who always decides
what it is
and my dad was a tireless fighter
he never lowered his arms
although they had taken away everything
material and had forced him to live in
subhuman conditions
what they could not snatch from him was his
inner freedom
his decision to be who he had
decided to be and decided to be whole
brave optimistic worker and up
with a certain sense of humor
I think all this was the greatest merit
of your experience
and so he lived his whole life when he
began to do something whether it was to paint a
room chop firewood prune the trees
or make your garden did not stop until
finish I was not hungry, thirsty or sleepy
his only goal was to finish
so admirable was his personality that
until the last moment of his life
had the courage to decide
he took off the oxygen mask and I
he said enough until here I arrived
I’m sure many of you
they will have parents and grandparents with my story
surely very surprising and maybe
never have to go through this kind of
extreme experiences but I propose
inquire
talk knowing those stories and
discover how much we can learn from
especially in these times when
we feel overwhelmed by the problems
let’s look back let’s review the
history of our ancestors because
if we are here today, surely
it’s because they have had to overcome
innumerable drawbacks we find
in them the inspiration and the strength to
overcome our own difficulties
today I am grateful to have this
opportunity since through it the
my dad’s story came to you
and I hope you remember it as the
triumph of the will
the triumph of the will phrase that the
Nazis tried to appropriate but not
they could because there were people like
my dad that in addition to a large share of
luck they also had the wish
unshakeable to recover freedom
and get ahead
I sincerely wish that this little
tribute that I try to make to my old man
has served them to demonstrate that
can survive by willpower
[Applause]
how many of us have memories
counted by our parents or grandparents
things that maybe because they are habitual
we gave it the importance that really
They had
I for example keep stories told
for my dad from his childhood in his italy
natal like those carnivals in
treviso in which they disguised themselves and
they painted their faces with burnt corks
once being in full celebration came
a restless friend screaming bruce ebro
how severe they asked severus to the
bed told them they had burned the bed
to my grandparents with a badly off cork
Needless to say, they had to
escape from the house for a few days to the
a relative’s house until my grandfather
his anger went away
or that anecdote of when he died
a creature the custom was that
village boys will carry in the coffin
white to the cemetery
the priest went ahead with the
altar boys and them behind until they
tired of charging they supported the coffin in
They sat down and up to
rest when the priest turned around and
he saw them he wanted to kill them
How are you? Maybe you have many
stories to tell from their parents and
grandparents
the truth is that he spent his childhood and my
dad between mischief and work in the
field since this was the activity
family
his life went on its course until in
1939 World War II broke out
1941 was 21 years old and he decided to go to the
war
replacing a brother who had been
summoned but he was already married he was
single and had no commitments
fought he risked his life day by day in
the battlefield facing
extreme situations that are not humanly
we could understand but
unfortunately necessary for
survive
well it happened two years until in 1943
mussolini is overthrown and the marshal
badoglio successor signs a ministry
with those with the allies declaring the
German war already here changed
completely my dad’s destiny
when the shaft breaks the prisoner of
the Germans and they begin their hardships
is taken in the former Yugoslavia they take it
on foot through the territory with days
of intense rain without food or coats
a walk of approximately 800
kilometers however he remained standing
and survived
so he came to hungary
in hungary along with hundreds of other
prisoners put him on a train and what
They took Austria
in austria he was transferred to a field of
concentration on links where they removed
all your material belongings
curiously the only thing he could keep
It was this fork
that accompanied him all his life and that I
today I have in my hands and I try to
invoke that force to which he will be
closed to this insignificant object
but that in his condition was the only
that he had left to stay together
his family
in the concentration camp what
forced to work in conditions
subhumans
first in a locomotive factory in
where among other things that he suffered was
the fracture of a leg
but this did not stop him they accommodated it
as they could between their peers and
He went ahead then they took him to a
sugar beet sugar and more
forward he worked in the field caring
animals and planting pines
in all these places I worked 12
hours per day for a crust of bread and
a tiny portion of water that barely
enough to drink and wash
they slept in barracks on wooden floor
with small blankets that did not reach
shelter them they managed to warm themselves
putting one against the other
They were raised every day at 5
in the morning they were made into lines and
the guards passed magazine with dogs
if one moved the dogs not the
they bit but were removed from the
training and they were fiercely tipped
beatings
despite everything he always look for the side
positive to things told us by
example that in the sugar factory
they were lucky to take everything sweetened
and when he had to work in the field,
it had gone so badly
they had obviously taken all
your material belongings but what
they could not take away his
internal belongings that strength of
will keep pushing him
I live at some point to return to his
town and reunite with your family
the one to survive adapts to the
circumstances did all the work
that they imposed on him he never said no to anything
because I knew that if I did not come the beating and
I could even disappear
his will kept him alive better said
he saved his life
until one morning the Nazi guards
they did not wake them up
there were no longer Germans guarding the
field nobody told them but the war
it was over and he had regained his
freedom
this was the beginning of the return home
I never knew how many kilometers that way
time and I think he does not know until
that were found by the army
American that I declare free what
they got on a truck and that’s how
return to your beloved italy
when he arrived in his village it was a night
warm of 1945 some guys played in
the door of their house and when they saw it
They ran to tell parents about
that they did not believe him because habitually
they made that kind of jokes when
he entered the room and they saw him not what
they could believe he was very skinny and
unbearable but alive they already gave it
for dead however he came back thanks
to your willpower
the post- liberation period
it was not easy either remember the bad guys
past moments
many could not adapt not knowing
what to do with the recovered freedom
turning over to the drink and not being able
rebuild their lives
with him he had brought the portfolios of
four of his comrades fallen in
combat
and took care of making the arrival to their
families through the parish priest of the town
the horrors of war followed
stalking even in these details
Nonetheless
with that willpower that always
had before the adversities decided to give
turn the page and get ahead and
so it was that without forgetting the past but
doing it on one side in 1948 it came
for Argentina
with a suitcase full of stories and
with the only capital that he had left that
it was his willpower his faith in leaving
forward and if also your fork
here work he met my mom and formed
a family
for me all this was just the
my dad’s life story
he never felt sorry for himself and for
therefore he did not insist on telling what
what had happened to him
for me all this was there I never got
I asked maybe out of respect or maybe
because he did not give him more
transcendence
until my therapist Dr. Laura
Ares here told me the story of victor
franklin an austrian psychiatrist and I
recommended that man read his book
in search of meaning
maybe some of you already know it and
they read it to me although I did not know it
reading I understood that the story of
frank he was very familiar to me
the stories of my own dad
as he progressed in reading
those stories shook me every time
plus
of this book I rescue a phrase in
particular
man is the being who always decides
what it is
and my dad was a tireless fighter
he never lowered his arms
although they had taken away everything
material and had forced him to live in
subhuman conditions
what they could not snatch from him was his
inner freedom
his decision to be who he had
decided to be and decided to be whole
brave optimistic worker and up
with a certain sense of humor
I think all this was the greatest merit
of your experience
and so he lived his whole life when he
began to do something whether it was to paint a
room chop firewood prune the trees
or make your garden did not stop until
finish I was not hungry, thirsty or sleepy
his only goal was to finish
so admirable was his personality that
until the last moment of his life
had the courage to decide
he took off the oxygen mask and I
he said enough until here I arrived
I’m sure many of you
they will have parents and grandparents with my story
surely very surprising and maybe
never have to go through this kind of
extreme experiences but I propose
inquire
talk knowing those stories and
discover how much we can learn from
especially in these times when
we feel overwhelmed by the problems
let’s look back let’s review the
history of our ancestors because
if we are here today, surely
it’s because they have had to overcome
innumerable drawbacks we find
in them the inspiration and the strength to
overcome our own difficulties
today I am grateful to have this
opportunity since through it the
my dad’s story came to you
and I hope you remember it as the
triumph of the will
the triumph of the will phrase that the
Nazis tried to appropriate but not
they could because there were people like
my dad that in addition to a large share of
luck they also had the wish
unshakeable to recover freedom
and get ahead
I sincerely wish that this little
tribute that I try to make to my old man
has served them to demonstrate that
can survive by willpower
[Applause]
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