Witness History: Archive 2014

WW2, the Holocaust and Rome


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In 1943, Rome's Jewish citizens were promised that if they gave gold to the Nazis, they would escape deportation. Despite handing over 50kg of gold - more than 1,500 of the city's Jews were rounded up and sent to the death camps. Alan Johnston reports from Rome.

Photo: Survivor Settimia Spizzichino (far right)

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