Rome marks 70th anniversary of deportation of Jews

Oct 16th, 2013

Holocaust survivor Enzo Camerino attended morning Mass celebrated by Pope Francis in the Chapel of Santa Marta yesterday - the 70th anniversary of the deportation of the residents of Rome's Jewish ghetto.

Camerino is one of the 1,024 people who were snatched from their homes and transported to Auschwitz concentration camp. About two hundred children were among them. He is now one of only 16 living survivors.

Representatives of Rome's civil and religious society gathered at the city's Great Synagogue to commemorate that tragic day. Among them was the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano. During the solemn ceremony, a message from Pope Francis was read.

Last Friday, 11 October, the Bishop of Rome welcomed representatives from the Jewish Community to the Vatican and relaunched his appeal that “anti-Semitism be banished from the hearts and lives of every man and woman”.

(The picture is Disappeared Ghetto by Arco delle Azimelle 1886 - Wiki images)

Source: VIS

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