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Aug 25 2008

Jewish life in Italy – 1938

Posted by smoothstone

In 1938, the Italian government passed a law banning Jews from teaching in public schools. A few months later, Italian leader Benito Mussolini formed an axis with Adolf Hitler. Discrimination continued against thousands of Italian Jews, and in 1943 they were deported to German camps, with several small camps built in Italy as well. Recently, anti-Semitism has again flared in Italy; in 2003, Holocaust archives were destroyed at a school in Varese, and school walls were painted with graffiti such as “burn the Jews.”

Excerpted from Today In Jewish History