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Members of New York City Opera and National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene will participate in the public reading of names of the Jews deported from Italy and the Italian territories, on Thursday, January 27. The event is a ceremony organized every year by the Consulate General of Italy in New York for the Giorno della Memoria (Holocaust Remembrance Day) that will take place from 9:00am to 2:00 am outdoors in front of the Consulate (690 Park Avenue, between 69th and 68thstreet, and will be open to the public. The members of New York City Opera and National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene will join the commemoration from 10:30-11:30am. At 5pm, prior to the world premiere performance of THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, there will be a memorial service in Edmond J. Safra Hall to recognize the Jews from the town of Ferrara who perished in the Shoah, including a short film made in Ferrara by MEIS. A livestream of the memorial service will be available at watch.nytf.org.