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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 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]
Christians kill 360 Jews in Modica's La Giudecca: Otranto massacre: 11 August 1480 ... this was the last time the death penalty was applied in Italy Republic of Italy ...
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).
Child actress. Born Jewish, converted to Roman Catholicism with her family in June 1941 as an attempt by her father to save the family from certain death, but still considered Jewish by Nazi racial laws. Died in the cattle wagon routed to Auschwitz. Fritz Duschinsky [8] February 26, 1907: December 1, 1942: 35 Jewish Czechoslovak physicist
During the Holocaust, more than a million Jews were murdered in Ukraine. Most of them were shot in mass executions by Einsatzgruppen (death squads) and Ukrainian collaborators. [2] In 1897, the Russian Empire Census found that there were 442 Jews (out of a population of 3,032) living in Ivanhorod, a village today in the Cherkasy Oblast, central ...
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]