Abstract
The essay focuses on the characters and methods of application of the fascist anti-Semitic campaign with par ticular reference to the education system. It also stresses how persecution, albeit in a different way, also effects the Roma population. The study also shows that conquest of the empire and the colonial politics is has been an important step in building the notion of race as a category for classifying the population. Finally, it recalls the value of vigilance and memory in the construction of a society that knows how to integrate migrants overcoming the exclusivist and racist temptations.
