{"id":6349,"date":"2020-06-01T21:09:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T19:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moked.it\/international\/?p=6349"},"modified":"2020-08-24T18:56:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T16:56:07","slug":"news-my-father-a-victim-of-the-ardeatine-massacre-i-finally-know-what-his-fate-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moked.it\/international\/2020\/06\/01\/news-my-father-a-victim-of-the-ardeatine-massacre-i-finally-know-what-his-fate-was\/","title":{"rendered":"NEWS \u201cMy father, a victim of the Ardeatine massacre. I finally know what his fate was\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By Daniel Reichel*<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll tell you immediately how important it is for me to know where my father is buried. Every year, we celebrate Yom HaShoah and, on this occasion, I\u2019ve always lit up the memorial candle (ner neshama) for my father. Why on that day? Because I didn\u2019t know when my father had died. Now that I know, everything\u2019s going to be different. It\u2019s important to be aware of what happened, to see that place, i.e. the Ardeatine Caves, and to understand what these people went through.\u201d <\/p>\n

Seventy-six years later, this is what David Reicher said to Pagine Ebraiche about the importance of having discovered that his father Marian was buried in the Ardeatine Caves together with 334 other victims of this Nazi massacre which occurred on 24th March 1944. <\/p>\n

Some months ago, the Italian authorities, in collaboration with the National Association of Italian Families of Martyrs of the Ardeatine Massacre (ANFIM), managed to identify one of the nine still nameless people through a DNA test: that person was precisely Marian Reicher. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother made Aliyah to Israel soon after the war, and I was raised here. I asked her so many times to tell me about her time in Italy and about my father. I\u2019ve never heard it from her, not a single thing. It\u2019s as if she were in shock or had suffered a mental blackout,\u201d recounted David, who is the protagonist of the latest video segment by UCEI\u2019s newsroom. <\/p>\n

His father\u2019s fate was unknown to his family for many years, no less than seventy-six years. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile in Italy, his name had already appeared in 1991 in Il libro della memoria. Gli ebrei deportati dall\u2019Italia (1943-1945) (The Book of Remembrance. Jews deported from Italy (1943-1945), curated by the historian Liliana Picciotto. He was mentioned as a potential victim of the Ardeatine massacre but it was not officially confirmed. \u201cNo one in our family knew about that,\u201d emphasized David.<\/p>\n

The Reichers had fled from Poland to Italy \u2013 Marian was born in Kolomyia, a part of Poland at the time, now Ukraine \u2013 and had initially found shelter between Bassano del Grappa, when David\u2019s sister was born in 1942, and Vicenza after which they continued to move south. <\/p>\n

\u201cI was born in October 1943,\u201d said David. \u201cMy mother told me that my father had disappeared when I was three months old, meaning that he had died a few months later.\u201d <\/p>\n

In March 1944, he was killed by the Nazis in one of the most heinous war crimes. \u201cMy wife Rivka\u2019s cousin started doing some research about all members of the family and actually discovered something about my mother, my sister, and my father. She also found out that Marian Reicher had gone to Rome and was probably imprisoned there. Then I\u2019ve been contacted by the Families of the Ardeatine Massacre Victims Association and after an e-mail conversation they asked me to send them a DNA sample.\u201d <\/p>\n

David did so via the United States because in Israel it is a more complicated process and previous authorisation of the court is required. \u201cOn 17th April, they confirmed that my father is buried at the Ardeatine Caves.\u201d <\/p>\n

Now the Reichers are waiting for the medical emergency to end in order to come to Rome. \u201cWe already had an agreement with the Italian authorities for a ceremony to be held. It\u2019ll be a significant moment for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

It will be a chance to mend the bond with an unknown past but still echoing, and especially with Italy. \u201cI was born in Italy, but I don\u2019t know Italian. But I have a further connection with the country \u2013 my mother used to call me Danielo when I was a kid.\u201d <\/p>\n

When asked about his knowing anything else about his family, he underlines his mother\u2019s reluctance to tell about her past. <\/p>\n

\u201cShe wasn\u2019t that talkative. I know that she escaped from Poland to Hungary during the Great War, but I don\u2019t know how she met my father. Her first years in Israel were difficult: a salary to bring home, alone, with two kids. After 1955, we obtained compensation from the German government and things went a bit better. Still, we had a hard time.\u201d <\/p>\n

Nowadays, David \u201cDanielo\u201d Reicher is seventy-seven years old, he is still working and \u201cdoesn\u2019t even think about stopping\u201d. He proudly reminds us that he has eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. He will be able to pass on to his offspring the memory of Marian Reicher, a piece of his recomposed family history.<\/p>\n

Translated by Mattia Stefani and revised by Claudia Azzalini, both students at the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreting and Translation of Trieste University and interns at the newspaper office of the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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