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Project: presenting an idea and realization of memorial statue honoring the memory of deported Italian citizens who were sent to concentration camps in the Holocaust1. Emplacement: Area of platform No. 16 , Florence central train station (Santa Maria Novella2 ) (platform 16 was used to send victims to concentration camps of Mauthausen-Gusen3 in Austria). Objectives: The objective of this competition was to present an idea and realize a memorial statue to to act as reminder of the sore on the body of Italian civil society during the ascendancy of Nazi – fascism ideology, which focused on the issue of deportation of Italian jewish citizen’s . The following project is the work of a Iranian artist “Siavash Talaei” and it was considered to be an idea of great imagination and importance.