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Ettore Ovazza (21 March 1892 – 11 October 1943) was an Italian Jewish banker. [1] He was an early financer of Benito Mussolini, whom he was a personal friend of, and a strong supporter of Italian fascism. [2]
The Holocaust in Italy was the persecution, deportation, and murder of Jews between 1943 and 1945 in the Italian Social Republic, the part of the Kingdom of Italy occupied by Nazi Germany after the Italian surrender on 8 September 1943, during World War II.
The Lake Maggiore massacres was a set of World War II war crimes that took place near Lake Maggiore, Italy in September and October 1943.Despite strict orders not to commit any violence against civilians in the aftermath of the Italian surrender on 8 September 1943, members of the SS Division Leibstandarte murdered 56 Jews, predominantly Italian and Greek.
Jacopo Bonfadio (1550), Italian humanist and historian [2] Francesco Calcagno (1550), Venician Franciscan friar. [3] Giovanni di Giovanni (1365), 15-year-old Italian boy charged with being "a public and notorious passive sodomite" [4] [5] Lisbetha Olsdotter (1679), Swedish cross-dresser and early female soldier (disguised as a man).
The Italian Jewish community as a whole has numbered no more than 50,000 since it was fully emancipated in 1870. During the Second Aliyah (between 1904 and 1914) many Italian Jews moved to Israel, and there is an Italian synagogue and cultural centre in Jerusalem. Around 7,700 Italian Jews were deported and murdered during the Holocaust. [3]
A series of polls since 2010 found that support for the death penalty has been growing. from 25% in 2010, 35% in 2017 and In 2020, 43% of Italians expressed support for the death penalty. [12] [13] [14] A February 2024 poll has found that 31% of Italians support the death penalty. [15]
Italian people of Tunisian-Jewish descent (1 P) Pages in category "Italian people of Jewish descent" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.
The Italian Jewish appeals came to the attention of Sir Moses Montefiore, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, whose willingness to travel great distances to help his co-religionists, as he had over the Damascus blood libel of 1840, for example, was already well known. [72]