Friday,
June 13, 2008
Documentary of Courage of Italians Saving
Jews in
The
ANNOTICO Report
It
is important to keep in mind 3 items when Engel Entertainment produces this
Documentary:
(!)
The Italian Laws of 1937 were actual "Purity Laws" to discourage
Italian Soldiers occupying
(2)
There were approximately 60,000 Jews In Italy in the
1930s, many of who were Mussolini's early Supporters, Financiers, and Leaders.
While
the Italians controlled
Once
Italy surrendered and joined the Allies, and the the
Germans controlled Italy, the Germans rounded up 9,000
German/Austrian/Polish Citizen Refugees, and sent them back to Germany, and 20%
perished. Many more would have been sent back ,if it handn't been for the courage of Non Jew Italians who risked
their lives to save Jews lives hiding them from the Nazis.
(3) Not only were Neighbors and Strangers involved in the hiding, caring, and feeding of the Jewish Refugees, Convents and Churches were directed by Pope Pius XI to shelter as many as they could. Italian Police would often warn those Jews who were to be arrested, so they might escape.
For Anyone seeking additional information, although they are many books out there, I would recommend " Did Pius XII Help the Jews?", and "Yad Vashem has it Wrong" both by 'The Fighting Nun', Sister Margherita Marchione, one of the most recognized scholars on the subject., who can be contacted at: Sr.Margherita.Marchione@ATT.Net
Documentary on Saving Jews in
New film to tell little-
known story of Italian courage
ANSA -
June 10, 2008
The little known story of
Italians who saved Jews during World War II will be the subject of a new
documentary film, to be produced by Engel Entertainment, it was announced on
Tuesday.
The project,
The presentation of the project, explained Deputy Consul Giovanni Favilli, ''has a double purpose: to announce that a
documentary is in preparation in New York on what Italians did during the
Holocaust, and to highlight this story which few people are aware of''.
''The consulate is involved because the documentary deals with a part of
Italian history which everyone should know about. Although racial laws were
adopted in (Fascist)
The presen tation of the
project included testimony by Jews who are alive today thanks to the help they
received from Italians during the war.
''The fact that 80% of the Jews in
''The fact that few people in the
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