3 January 1900 | Italian Jew Emanuele Di Porto was born in Rome. A merchant. In 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive. - ThreadSky

auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social • 65 days ago

3 January 1900 | Italian Jew Emanuele Di Porto was born in Rome. A merchant.

In 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive.

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vingreensill.bsky.social•65 days ago

Emanuele

lakerat61.bsky.social•65 days ago

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rudigeerts.bsky.social•65 days ago

1/n The arrest and deportation of Jews in German-occupied Italy can be separated into 2 distinct phases. The first, under Dannecker, from September 1943 to January 1944, saw mobile Einsatzkommandos target Jews in major Italian cities. The second phase took place under Boßhammer,

rudigeerts.bsky.social•65 days ago

2/n who had replaced Dannecker in early 1944. Boßhammer set up a centralised persecution system, using all available German and Fascist Italian police resources, to arrest and deport Italian Jews.
The arrest of Jewish Italians and Jewish refugees began almost immediately after

rudigeerts.bsky.social•65 days ago

3/n the surrender, in October 1943. This took place in all major Italian cities under German control, albeit with limited success. The Italian police offered little cooperation, and 90% of Rome's 10,000 Jews escaped arrest.

rudigeerts.bsky.social•65 days ago

4/n Arrested Jews were taken to the transit camps at Borgo San Dalmazzo, Fossoli and Bolzano, and from there to Auschwitz. Of the 4,800 deported from the camps by the end of 1943 only 314 survived.

rudigeerts.bsky.social•65 days ago

5/n In the 19 months of German occupation, from September 1943 to May 1945, 20%of Italy's pre-war Jewish population was murdered by the Nazis. The actual Jewish population in Italy during the war was, however, higher than the initial 40,000 as the Italian government

rudigeerts.bsky.social•65 days ago

6/6 had evacuated 4,000 Jewish refugees from its occupation zones to southern Italy alone.
By September 1943, 43,000 Jews were present in northern Italy and, by the end of the war, 40,000 Jews in Italy had survived the Holocaust.

cranston15.bsky.social•64 days ago

I read once that the Germans demanded the Italians hand over Jews from their zone in Croatia. The reply was "It was incompatible with the honour of the Italian army." Pity the Heer didn't follow suit.