Nazis deported greater than 1,000 Jews from Rome to Auschwitz in October 1943.
Rome’s Jewish group on Thursday will commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the deportation of greater than 1,000 of the town’s Jews to the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz.
The deportation occurred following a daybreak raid on 16 October 1943 when Nazi troops, with the collaboration of Italian fascist officers, rounded up the residents of the Jewish Ghetto district.
Two days after the raid, 1,022 Roman Jews, together with 200 kids, have been despatched to Auschwitz on a sealed practice from Tiburtina station.
Only 16 would make it again to Rome alive: 15 males and one lady, Settimia Spizzichino.
The final of the 16 survivors, Lello Di Segni, died in Rome in 2018.
The anniversary of the rastrellamento is marked yearly with a wreath-laying ceremony within the capital’s Jewish Ghetto district.
A plaque on a constructing close to the place the ceremony takes place reads (in Italian):
“Settimino Calò left this home the place he lived along with his spouse Clelia Frascati and their 9 kids. When he returned right here he discovered it empty without end. His family members had been rounded up on 16 October 1943 after which deported to Auschwitz together with greater than 1,000 Jews.”
