Piero Terracina, Auschwitz survivor from Italian Jewish community, dies

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Piero Terracina&comma; one of the last survivors of Italy’s tiny Jewish community who were deported to Nazi death camps during the Second World War&comma; has died&period; He was 91&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Terracina died on Sunday&comma; Rome’s Jewish Community said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As a 15-year-old&comma; he escaped the round-up by German occupying troops of Rome’s Jews in 1943 and went into hiding with his family&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But the next year he was arrested and deported to the complex of Auschwitz with his family&comma; where his parents&comma; three siblings and other relatives died&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Terracina’s recounting of the horrors suffered there won praise by Italian leaders&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Noemi Di Segni&comma; president of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities&comma; hailed Terracina as a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;true light in these dark times” which she described as being marked by words of hate and denial of the Holocaust&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Terracina was described as the last Roman Jew among Italy’s Holocaust survivors at the time of his death&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Even before many of them were hauled off to death camps by Nazi occupiers&comma; the nation’s Jews were already suffering under Fascist leader Benito Mussolini&comma; whose regime&comma; in 1938&comma; enacted anti-Jewish laws&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Among other things&comma; the laws banned Jews from holding public positions&comma; including teaching&comma; and forcing Jewish-owned stores to put signs in their windows identifying them as such&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There has been a surge in anti-Semitic incidents in Italy in recent years&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Recently&comma; a police escort was assigned to another Holocaust survivor among Italian Jews&comma; Liliana Segre&comma; who received death threats and hundreds of anti-Semitic insults&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She was named a senator-for-life for speaking to Italian schoolchildren about the horrors of the concentration camps&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e548aca1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e548aca1'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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