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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

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