A few days before our departure to Rome, we are continuing our research on the Jewish ghetto in the Italian capital . The few traces that remain of this event, including the raid on October 16, 1943, are inaccessible. However, on the link below, you will find many testimonies of Jews who lived in ghettos before being transported to concentration camps.
site of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/idcard.php?lang=fr&ModuleId=416
http:// www.ushmm.org/wlc/idcard.php?lang=fr&ModuleId=404
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/idcard.php?lang=fr&ModuleId=308
In Moreover, it seems that the Italian population was not highly sensitized to these events as could be the German people. Many reasons can explain this, including the fact that Jews were deported by the Nazi troops in front of the Vatican.
The arts in general in Italy therefore evoke little something akin to a collective memory hole. However, below you will find an excerpt from the film GENTE DI ROMA directed by Ettore Scola, who says about this scene:
" This episode happened while I was shooting the short film where 1943-1997 seen early in the raid for arrest all the Jews of the ghetto of Rome. While they turned an old lady fainted. Obviously, we stopped shooting, she was rescued, he was taken to a bar next door. Her name Spizzichino, she was one of the last survivors of the 1943 roundup, a survivor of Auschwitz, she still had the tattoo on his arm. It marked me, I felt guilty for indirectly revived the misfortune of this old woman, so I wanted to redo the scene. If you know Rome we immediately recognize the synagogue and Jewish quarter, otherwise we do not understand the meaning of la séquence que lorsqu'on découvre le tatouage sur le bras. Le public peut avoir des impressions sans comprendre comment elles naissent. "
extrait de Gente di Roma:
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/idcard.php?lang=fr&ModuleId=308
In Moreover, it seems that the Italian population was not highly sensitized to these events as could be the German people. Many reasons can explain this, including the fact that Jews were deported by the Nazi troops in front of the Vatican.
The arts in general in Italy therefore evoke little something akin to a collective memory hole. However, below you will find an excerpt from the film GENTE DI ROMA directed by Ettore Scola, who says about this scene:
" This episode happened while I was shooting the short film where 1943-1997 seen early in the raid for arrest all the Jews of the ghetto of Rome. While they turned an old lady fainted. Obviously, we stopped shooting, she was rescued, he was taken to a bar next door. Her name Spizzichino, she was one of the last survivors of the 1943 roundup, a survivor of Auschwitz, she still had the tattoo on his arm. It marked me, I felt guilty for indirectly revived the misfortune of this old woman, so I wanted to redo the scene. If you know Rome we immediately recognize the synagogue and Jewish quarter, otherwise we do not understand the meaning of la séquence que lorsqu'on découvre le tatouage sur le bras. Le public peut avoir des impressions sans comprendre comment elles naissent. "
extrait de Gente di Roma: