SHALOM WORLD
Don’t back away. The snapshot of a memory
It is a winter morning. In front of the Great Synagogue in Rome some friends meet with a smartphone and a tripod to do an interview with a witness who followed the tragic events of the Synagogue attack forty years ago in that very place. Emilia recounts everything she saw with her own eyes that day step by step, from the bomb ...
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Screaming Silence: ‘Here is my book on the bombing of the synagogue in Rome, written to make young people aware of an Italian history’. An interview with author Gadiel Gaj Taché
A picture, a phrase, even a dream can bring it back suddenly. After you experience a terrorist attack, the nightmare never leaves you: it keeps resurfacing in your life whenever it finds the smallest crack in your memory. Gadiel Gaj Taché’s never-ending nightmare of October 9, 1982—the day of the terrorist attack on Rome ...
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The long relationship of Queen Elizabeth with the Jewish community
The death of Queen Elizabeth has inevitably touched the hearts of many, after 70 years of realm “The London Bridge has fallen”.During the longest sovereignty in British history, the queen won the loyalty and respect of the British Jewish community. Many personalities and rabbis have been honored with titles and ...
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"We have been suffering injustice for fifty years" - Interview with Ilana Romano, wife of one of the victims of the 1972 Munich massacre
Fifty years have passed since the attack at the Munich Olympics in 1972: the sporting event turned into a massacre - both physical and in the media - of the athletes of the Israeli delegation. A tragedy that took place in the light of day, under the eyes of the world. A combination of the ghosts of the past of a not too dista ...
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Donato Di Veroli, the last Roman Jew who survived the Shoah. “He testified at the trial against Bosshammer in Berlin” - Interview with Marcello Pezzetti
“He was good and mild-mannered, that was his strength”. Thus the historian Marcello Pezzetti comments on the death of Donato Di Veroli, the last of the Roman Jews who survived the Shoah and the hell of the Nazi extermination camps, who has died at the age of 98 in Rome. Few people know the story of Di Veroli, who was depo ...
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