Language:
English
Year of publication:
2005
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
10,4 (2005) 426-446
Keywords:
Donati, Angelo,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Rescue
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jewish refugees History 20th century
Abstract:
During the Italian occupation of southern France in 1940-43, the French Alps was an area that promised shelter for Jewish refugees from all over Europe. The Italian authorities, military and police, protected Jewish refugees not only from the Germans but also from the French authorities. Many Italian "concentration camps" in the Alps were in fact areas of protected residence. Discusses routes of escape to that region from northwestern Italy and southern France. Relates the activities of Angelo Donati, an Italian Jewish banker and diplomat, who had a plan to rescue thousands of these refugees in summer 1943, during the downfall of Mussolini, by transporting them via Italy to North Africa and on to Palestine, but it did not work. The appendix on pp. 444-446 presents a document relating to a case of successful Italian protection of Jewish refugees in a "residence forcée" in St. Martin Vésubie.
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