\u201cFrom September 1943 to March 1945, more than a thousand people \u2014 men, women, partisans, antifascists, and Jews \u2014 were imprisoned within these walls. From here, they were deported to Nazi concentration camps.\u201d This inscription appeared at the end of March on the tarmac in front of the Carceri Nuove in Turin, a complex of buildings used as a prison from 1870 to the 1980s.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The \u201cstumbling threshold\u201d was created by the Extended Museum of the Resistance in Turin, the National Association of Ex-deportees, and the Jewish Community. It is inspired by the Stumbling Stones project, which involves embedding small brass plaques in pavements to commemorate victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBeyond being a place of violence, this prison has also been a place of small heroic gestures,\u201d said Dario Disegni, president of the Jewish Community of Turin, during the ceremony to unveil the inscription. On this occasion, Disegni recounted \u201cthe story of sister Giuseppina de Muro, who saved Mr. and Mrs. Zargani and the child Massimo Foa from deportation by helping them escape from the prison. During those frantic moments, the nun hid Foa in a basket of dirty laundry, which proved to be his salvation: \u201cIt was an act of great courage, for which sister De Muro has finally been recognized as Righteous Among the Nations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"