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December 9, 2019 - Kislev 11, 5780

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Auschwitz survivor Piero Terracina
passes away

By Adam Smulevich

Piero Terracina, one of the last Italian Holocaust survivors, passed away at the age of 91.
Deported teenager to Auschwitz, he was the only one in his family who survived.
Like many other survivors, he did not talk about his experience for a long time. Later in life, he decided to speak mainly to address young people, to whom he devoted himself with all his energy in many meetings, initiatives and conferences.
Terracina was born in 1928 in Rome. He returned home after a long, difficult journey. Not all the things were like he expected. Terracina stressed: "On my return to Rome from Auschwitz, alone and desperate, I found indifference. The indifference of people and institutions. An indifference that still weighs on our country".

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Israeli FM Israel Katz visits Italy

By Pagine Ebraiche staff*

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz was in Rome last week to attend Med Dialogues, an international conference organized by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Milan-based think tank ISPI.
Katz met with his Italian counterpart Luigi Di Maio, the leader of the Democratic Party Nicola Zingaretti and League leader Matteo Salvini.
The Iranian threat was among the issues the Israeli minister discussed.
"We will not allow Iran to produce or obtain nuclear weapons,” he said in an interview with Italian daily Corriere della Sera.

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“Universities should adopt the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism”

By Pagine Ebraiche staff

“If we want to invest in new generations, universities should embrace programmes, initiatives and a code of conduct that orient knowledge and educate people so that tomorrow they can participate in the civil life of this country, affirming its constitutional principles and understanding that the freedom they enjoy today was the reason for the fight against Nazi-fascism, which was a hard experience for the young people of the past.” This is what UCEI President Noemi Di Segni wrote in a message addressed to Francesco Frati, Dean of the University of Siena, and for information to Gaetano Manfredi, president of the Board of Deans of Italian Universities, and to the Minister for Education, University and Research Lorenzo Fioramonti.

Translated by Rachele Ferin and revised by Mattia Stefani, student at the Advanced School for Interpreters and Translators of Trieste University, intern at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.

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Une mauvaise image
de soi

Anna Foa*

L’image que Fabio Tuiach, le conseiller municipal d’extrême droite, a donné de lui-même, vexé par les propos de Liliana Segre qui a affirmé que le Christ était juif, tend à nous faire sourire étant donné son évidente ignorance. Attaquer ce dernier, comme l’a suggéré un dessin humoristique publié sur Facebook, équivaudrait à tirer sur la Croix Rouge.

*Anna Foa, historienne. Traduit par Mattia Stefani, étudiant de l’École Supérieure pour les Interprètes et les Traducteurs de Trieste et stagiaire dans le bureau du journal de l’Union des communautés juives italiennes.

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Historians

By David Bidussa*

Every now and then I have the feeling, but maybe I'm wrong, of being a fortuitous survivor of a flood. Therefore, wherever I am, I’m forced, as Sisifo by Albert Camus, to endlessly push the boulder of memory and understanding up to the ungrateful mountain of public oblivion. Or perhaps, more simply, this is the task of the historian, in the time of the alleged preservation of all what happened in the past in a cloud.

*David Bidussa is a historian of social ideas.

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Piero Terracina, last Rome Jew who survived Nazi death camp, dies at 91

By Frances D'Emilio*

Piero Terracina, described as the last survivor among the Roman Jews who were deported from the Italian capital to Nazi death camps during World War II, has died at 91.
Terracina died on Sunday, Rome’s Jewish Community said.
As a 15-year-old, he escaped the roundup by German occupying troops of Rome’s Jews in 1943 and went into hiding with his family. But a few months later, as his family marked Passover in April 1944, he was arrested and deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camps with his family, where his parents, three siblings and other relatives perished.

*The article appeared in The Times of Israel via AP on December 9, 2019.

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