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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 532

Rome ghetto

Pope Francis flanked by Rabbi Riccardo Di Segni, right, during his visit to the Great Synagogue of Rome, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
March 4, 2025, 5:52 am
For Rome’s Jews, ties with ailing pope are personal. And increasingly complicated
With 2,000 years of history between the Jewish community and the Catholic Church, relations have been positive in recent decades. But October 7 has stirred up age-old apprehensions
By Rossella Tercatin
Illustrative: A woman in a wheelchair basks in the sun on Via Portico d'Ottavia in Rome's Old Ghetto, one of the world's longest continuing Jewish communities, October 31, 1997. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
August 10, 2023, 3:45 am
An epic tale: New book details over two millennia of Roman Jewish life
From the Church to Mussolini, ‘Intimate Strangers’ sees archaeologist and historian Fredric Brandfon explore the rich and complex history of Europe’s oldest Jewish community
By Rich Tenorio
Emanuele Di Porto speaks about his experience in a Zoom conference. (Courtesy)
January 27, 2021, 4:39 am
Four Italian Holocaust survivors tell how they escaped death on ‘Black Saturday’
Ahead of a January 27 online preview of the Rome Shoah Foundation Museum’s new exhibition, volunteers who usually travel Italy speaking to schools share their stories with ToI
By Giovanni Vigna
A group visiting the Villa Torlonia Jewish Catacombs guided by Amir Genach, center. (courtesy Amir Genach)
March 1, 2019, 11:40 pm
In Rome, spectacular ancient Jewish catacomb’s opening haunted by delays
Under the sprawling estate of Villa Torlonia, Mussolini’s home for 18 years, is a 4th century cemetery housing some 3,800 Jewish graves. The question now is, when can they be seen?
By Rossella Tercatin
Lello Di Segni. (Courtesy/ Press Office of the Jewish Community of Rome)
November 21, 2018, 8:40 pm
What the last survivor of Rome’s Jewish ghetto raid leaves behind
Lello Di Segni, who died at age 91, is mourned by his community and internationally — but he might be missed most inside the classroom
By Federico Maccioni
Lello Di Segni (Screen capture: YouTube)
October 27, 2018, 9:11 am
Last survivor of Nazi raid on Rome’s Jewish ghetto dies
Italy’s PM offers condolences to Jewish community, says Lello Di Segni’s story must be passed down ‘so that this dark period… will never be repeated’
By AFP
About 1,500 people took part in the Run for Mem on January 22, which commemorated persecution sites from the Holocaust. (Courtesy Moked.it/Pagine Ebraiche)
January 27, 2017, 4:34 pm
Running for the past, athletes trek to Holocaust race in Rome
With 80-year-old Holocaust survivor and Munich Olympian Shaul Ladany, the Run for Mem took participants past historical Nazi persecution sights throughout the city
By Rossella Tercatin
Torah scrolls unrolled to dry in the great synagogue of Rome. (Courtesy of Opera del Tempio)
November 30, 2016, 8:53 pm
50 years ago, ‘mud angels’ came to flooded Florence to save centuries of Jewish history
Residents mark the anniversary of the 1966 disaster which decimated the city, damaging 90 Torah scrolls and 15,000 holy texts
By Rossella Tercatin
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