Papers by Liliana Picciotto
La Rassegna mensile di Israel, 2008
Central figure of this article is Raffaele Cantoni, a leader of Italian Judaism over the years, f... more Central figure of this article is Raffaele Cantoni, a leader of Italian Judaism over the years, from 1931 to the end of the Sixties of the 20th century, and focuses in particular on his activity during his brief exile in Switzerland. During that period he concentrated all his energies in trying to secure funds and to organize the underground system of distribution of the amounts he had obtained for the welfare organisations who were taking care of the Jewish refugees hiding in Italy. All this was done in close collaboration with Lelio Vittorio Valobra, President of the Delasem (the institution that the Union of Italian Jewish Communities had set up to assist non ― Italian Jews who had fled Nazi-occupied countries), at the time also a refugee in the Swiss Confederation
La Rassegna mensile di Israel, 2001
In Florence, after the German occupation of Italy, September 8, 1943, Rav Nathan Cassuto and a ha... more In Florence, after the German occupation of Italy, September 8, 1943, Rav Nathan Cassuto and a handful of heroic coworkers created a Jewish Aid Committee to provide shelter, false identity cards and clothings for the many refugees pouring from South France. Cardinal Elia Dalla Costa, Archibishop of Florence, was involved in the Aid work. He lent all his help through
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Jun 27, 2005
Revue d'histoire de la Shoah, 2016
This paper examines the function of the Fossoli di Carpi Jewish concentration camp, which played ... more This paper examines the function of the Fossoli di Carpi Jewish concentration camp, which played a central role in the Italian Holocaust. The camp, which was created on December 3, 1943 by the government of the Italian Social Republic, was the direct consequence of an order issued the preceding November 30th that commanded the arrest and roundup of all of the Jews, as well as the confiscation of all of their belongings. This order impacted Jews who had already been persecuted and terrorized starting in October 16th of the same year in the German roundups carried out in the big cities and in the immediate deportation of those arrested. Once Fossoli became operational, the persecution mechanism changed. Henceforth, the arrests were carried out not by the German police, but by the Italian police, who, from that point on, conducted a very thorough search for Jews who had become “outlaws.” In mid-February 1944, the Germans ordered that an Italian garrison be replaced by a German garrison. They then began to organize, with the utmost calm, the staged deportation of Jews from the camp to the Auschwitz extermination camp and, in certain cases, the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Beginning in March 1944, a separate section of Fossoli also served as a detention and deportation camp for political opponents. The camp was closed at the beginning of August 1944 after the last deportations of Jews took place and prisoners had been transferred to the Bolzano-Gries camp farther north in Italy.
Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Apr 1, 2016
Abstract:In the vast majority of cases, Jews who survived the Holocaust in Italy did so in one (o... more Abstract:In the vast majority of cases, Jews who survived the Holocaust in Italy did so in one (or more) of three ways: by blending in with the non-Jewish population; by fleeing over the border into Switzerland; or by taking refuge in private homes, church dormitories or convents, or medical institutions. The author of this article presents the preliminary results of research based on archival documents, autobiographical works, and hundreds of survivor interviews. The aims of this extensive, ongoing research project are, first, to further examine Jews’ survival strategies; and second, to analyze rescuers’ demographic characteristics, with the ultimate goal of better understanding their motivations.
Handbuch des Antisemitismus Online
La macchina antiebraica della Rsi e l'Ispettore generale per la razza Giovanni Preziosi, 2008
La bienvenue et l’adieu | 2, 2012
Central figure of this article is Raffaele Cantoni, a leader of Italian Judaism over the years, f... more Central figure of this article is Raffaele Cantoni, a leader of Italian Judaism over the years, from 1931 to the end of the Sixties of the 20th century, and focuses in particular on his activity during his brief exile in Switzerland. During that period he concentrated all his energies in trying to secure funds and to organize the underground system of distribution of the amounts he had obtained for the welfare organisations who were taking care of the Jewish refugees hiding in Italy. All this was done in close collaboration with Lelio Vittorio Valobra, President of the Delasem (the institution that the Union of Italian Jewish Communities had set up to assist non ― Italian Jews who had fled Nazi-occupied countries), at the time also a refugee in the Swiss Confederation
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