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WW2, the Holocaust and Rome
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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Jan 27, 2014
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Podcast episode
Description
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)
Photo: Survivor Settimia Spizzichino (far right)
Released:
Jan 27, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Translator at Nuremberg: The trials of senior Nazis began in the autumn of 1945. by Witness History: World War Two