Language:
Italian
Year of publication:
2006
Titel der Quelle:
Tra Roma e Bolzano
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2006) 138-148
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
;
Jews History 20th century
;
Jews History
Abstract:
At the beginning of 1938, 666 Jews were registered in the Alto Adige region; most of them were refugees from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. From 1933, when they began to arrive, they were subject to hostility, rooted in the historical antisemitism of the populace in the Tirol. Hostility was also evident in the press campaign against them preceding the enactment of the Racial Laws, and in the decrees of September and November 1938, which established that foreign Jews had six months to leave the country, except for those married to Italians or who were older than 65. Until March 1939, 278 foreign Jews from Alto Adige left the country under pressure from the Ministry of Interior, although emigration was difficult. Later that year the Ministry suspended the expulsion but did not cancel the decrees. In May 1940 the Ministry ordered the internment of foreign Jews who had not yet left the country. When the Nazis occupied northern Italy in 1943, some of the Jews were deported to camps. Some managed to escape with the help of Italian officials, the Church, and civilians.
URL:
Locate this publication in Israeli libraries
Permalink