Date, Time and Venue: Sunday October 30, 2022, at 2:00 PM for SaddleBrooke Freethinkers in the Desert View Theater in SaddleBrooke (Social Hour at 1:30 PM). 

Dr. Deborah Kaye will speak about the profoundly moving history of Italy’s Jews under the shadow of the Holocaust, told through the lives of five Jewish Italian families: the Ovazzas of Turin, who prospered under Mussolini and whose patriarch became a prominent fascist; the Foas of Turin, whose children included both an antifascist activist and a Fascist Party member; the Di Verolis of Rome, who struggled for survival in the ghetto; the Teglios of Genoa, one of whom worked with the Catholic church to save hundreds of Jews; and the Schonheits of Ferrara, who were sent to Buchenwald and Ravensbruck. The lecture will provide a montage of Italian Jewish responses to the Holocaust based on letters, diaries and personal interviews.