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It is estimated that about 10,000 Italian Jews were deported to concentration and death camps, of whom 7,700 perished in the Holocaust, out of a pre-war Jewish population that amounted to 58,500 (46,500 by Jewish religion and 12,000 converted or non-Jewish sons of mixed marriages).
Giovanni Palatucci. Giovanni Palatucci (31 May 1909 – 10 February 1945) was an Italian police official who was long believed to have saved thousands of Jews in Fiume between 1939 and 1944 (current Rijeka in Croatia) from being deported to Nazi extermination camps.
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]
Since 1442, when the Kingdom of Naples came under Spanish rule, considerable numbers of Sephardi Jews came to live in Southern Italy. Following the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, from Portugal in 1495 and from the Kingdom of Naples in 1533, many moved to central and northern Italy. One famous refugee was Isaac Abarbanel.
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.
Italian people of Tunisian-Jewish descent (1 P) Pages in category "Italian people of Jewish descent" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.
The man who killed 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue was formally sentenced to death Thursday, one day after a jury determined that capital punishment was appropriate for the perpetrator of ...
Italy portal; Judaism portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 16 subcategories, out of 16 total. ... Pages in category "Italian Jews" The following 20 ...