
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Italians Saved Jews from Germans
- Who Saved Armenians and Palestinians from Zionists???
The individual
cases of Italian Rescue and Protection of Jews from the Germans during
WWII keeps trickling out, But two of the better books on the subject
that give a greater overview are:
Bad Times, Good People: A Holocaust
Survivor Recounts His Life in Italy During World War II, By Walter
Wolff
The author tells a deep and neglected
story of how Italians proved their humanity during the worst period of
20th century history, despite Nazi brutality. After Kristallnacht in 1938
the authors family fled to Italy. There his family survived because strangers
kept risking their lives to save them. The chilling narrative will surprise
the reader with how tenuous life was in that era.]
It Happened in Italy: Untold Stories
of How the People of Italy Defied the Horrors of the Holocaust By
Elizabeth Bettina
Take a journey with Elizabeth Bettina
as she discovers much to her surprise, that her grandparent's small village,
nestled in the heart of southern Italy, housed an internment camp for Jews
during the Holocaust, and that it was far from the only one. Follow her
discovery of survivors and their stories of gratitude to Italy and its
people. Explore the little known details of how members of the Catholic
church assisted and helped shelter Jews in Italy during World War II.
I beg Abe Foxman of the ADL to stop
his unreasonable complaining about PIUS XII did not do enough, and explain
the part the Donmeh, Crypto Jews from Salonika,GREECE, outwardly
observing Muslim ceremonies while inwardly scoffing at them, that followed
the Kabbalah, and organized a Zionist political group called The
Committee of Union and Progress,(CUP) later called The Young Turks, headed
by Italian Jew Emmanuel Carraso with the encouragement of the Rothschilds
were responsible for the "Armenian Genocide" Efendi Kemal Attaturk who
as a General at the Department of Defense successfully plotted a coup against
the Sultan,in 1919, and who as a Donmeh, intended to turn Muslim Turkey
into Secular Turkey, ruled as a despot,with a one party state to which
he appointed all members. Ataturk was not involved with the Young Turks
1915 Armenian Genocide, but was instrumental in the 1922 Armenian Genocide.
of 1915, so that the Rothschilds’ oil interests in the Black Sea area would
not be subject to the instability of the Christian Armenians who
were seeking "nationhood". The young Turks were later led by Mustaf.
Also, explain to me why "Never Again"
does not apply to the "Palestinian Genocide" that has and is being conducted
by Zionists over the last 60 years.
Holocaust Survivor tells Students
about Italians who helped Save Her
Kenosha News; By Terry Flores; March
25, 2010
Ursula Korn-Selig was just a teenager
in 1938 when she was told she could could no longer attend school.
Born in Germany and raised in Italy,
she and other Jewish children were forced out of class. A year later, at
the start of World War II, she was arrested and sent to Perugia, Italy,
where her mother and relatives were imprisoned.
Korn-Selig, 84, a Holocaust survivor,
said she owes her survival to the Italian people, particularly Roman Catholic
priest Beniamino Schivo, who hid her family in the Italian countryside.
On Thursday, she taught the student
members Bradford High School’s Italian Club about their history. Author
Elizabeth Bettina, an Italian American author who featured Korn-Selig’s
story in her book "It Happened in Italy" also spoke to the students about
how ordinary Italians risked their lives to keep Jews safe from the Nazis
and certain death. The women were invited by club adviser Ralph Annina.
Bettina, a 47-year-old marketing
executive from Manhattan, grew up in a New York neighborhood that was 98
percent Jewish and where Italians were the minority. As a child she visited
family members in Campagna, Italy, but it wasn’t until recently she learned
from pictures that Jews were hidden by the unassuming villagers.
“If you hid a Jew in Italy, you risked
your life", she said.
Her book is a testament to the steadfastness
of villagers who did things "the Italian way", she said. While Jews were
interned, they were not starved to death as in Germany and Poland. The
Italian government gave Jews a stipend and a place to live, despite a 1938
race pact Hitler and Mussolini signed and enacted. The pact had essentially
stripped Jews of Italian citizenship, banning them from schools, many jobs,
and from marrying non-Jews.
Nonetheless, Jews were able to practice
their religion, educate their children and interact with Italian villagers.
Even the local authorities participated in sporting activities with them,
Bettina said, showing many pictures recently uncovered.
It was Schivo who helped to place
Korn-Selig in a Benedictine convent where she would attend school. While
her family was interned, their experiences were not comparable to the "labor
camps" of Dachau and Auschwitz, she said.
Korn-Selig said her family was arrested
and taken to the Gestapo in Perugia."By some fate, the prisons were full",
she said.
Schivo and network of clergy immediately
took them to safety in Citta di Castello where they were hidden in a Salesian
retreat house in the mountains. Korn-Selig said the clergy moved her family
to different locations including a cemetery and they often went without
food.
“He kept on moving us; we even went
to a convent where we dressed as nuns .. the town must have known, but
nobody ever gave us away," she said.
Bradford senior Sarah Drysdale, 17,
said she was fascinated and thankful for the stories the women told. Drysdale’s
own family is from Cosenza, Italy, and she said her mother had never heard
about the risks Italians took to save Jews.
Korn-Selig said it was especially
important to tell the next generation that amid the terrible fate suffered
by many Jews, there were those like her who survived because of people
who did not look the other way. People like Schivo, now age 99 and the
recipient of the "Righteous Among the Nations" honor, gave her hope.
Two years ago, Korn-Selig had an
opportunity to meet Pope Benedict XVI for about three minutes. She said
she told him she remembered he was in the Hitler Youth, as all German youths
were conscripted. A survivor because of the acts of Roman Catholic priests,
she asked for the pope’s benediction. Instead, he hugged her.
“We can never erase what happened",
she said, adding the world should know the truth. "We can only hope for
a better world."
tflores@kenoshanews.com
http://www.kenoshanews.com/news/holocaust_survivor_tells_
students_about_italians_who_helped_save_her_7622389.html
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