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Obj. ID: 49862
Modern Jewish Art
  Roman Deportation Holocaust Memorial Plaques in Rome, Italy, 1964, 2001

© Samuel Gruber, Photographer: Gruber, Samuel D., 2004

Memorial Name

Roman Deportation Memorial Plaques

Who is Commemorated?

Roman Jews deported by Germans on October 16, 1943

Description:

A large inscribed rectangular wall plaque is affixed (1964) to an exterior wall in the small city square. Beneath it, a smaller, inscribed plaque was installed (2001) to specifically commemorate the deported and murdered Jewish children. 

Inscriptions

Upper Plaque (Italian)

IL 16 OTTOBRE 1943
QVI EBBE INIZIO
LA SPIETATA CACCIA AGLI EBREI
E DVEMILANOVANTVNO CITTADINI ROMANI
VENNERO AVVIATI A FEROCE MORTE
NEI CAMPI DI STERMINIO NAZISTI
DOVE FVRONO RAGGIVNTI
DA ALTRI SEIMILA ITALIANI
VITTIME DELL'INFAME
ODIO DI RAZZA 

I POCHI SCAMPATI ALLA STRAGE
I MOLTI SOLIDALI
INVOCANO DAGLI VOMINI
AMORE E PACE
INVOCANO DA DIO
PERDONO E SPERANZA 

A CVRA DEL COMITATO NAZIONALE
PER LE CELEBRAZIONI DEL VENTENNALE
DELLA RESISTENZA
23 OTTOBRE 1964

Translation: [To be translated]

Lower plaque (Italian):

“E NON COMINCIARONO NEPPURE A VIVERE”
IN RICORDO DEI NEONATI
STERMINATI NEI LAGER NAZISTI
IL COMUNE POSE NELLA GIORNATA DELLA MEMORIA
GENNAIO 2001

 Translation: “And they had not even begun to live” / In memory of the infants exterminated in the nazi camps the City placed [this memorial] on the day of remembrance / January 2001

Commissioned by

Top Plaque (1964): Comitato Nazionale per le Celebrazioni del Ventennale della Resistenza (National Committee for the celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Resistance).

Bottom Plaque (2001): Il Comune di Roma (The City of Rome)

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Roman Deportation Holocaust Memorial Plaques | Unknown
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Italy | Lazio | Rome
| Largo 16 Ottobre 1943
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History/Provenance

The Raid of the Ghetto of Rome occurred on October 16, 1943. The Gestapo detained 1,259 people, mainly members of the Jewish community (363 men, 689 women, and 207 children). Of these, 1,023 were identified as Jews and deported to Auschwitz. Of the deportees, only fifteen men and one woman survived.

In 1964, a memorial plaque was placed in a square in an area of the former Jewish ghetto that was still the center of Rome’s Jewish community, where Jews were gathered for deportation by truck. The Square (Largo) was renamed after the date of the raid, roundup, and deportation. In 2001, a second plaque was added to commemorate the murdered children. 

Main Surveys & Excavations
Sources

Vox, Nicola, ed. Roma ebraica, un itinerario / Jewish Rome, a route (Rome: Assessorato al Turismo region Lazio, 1995), pp. 36-37.
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Samuel Gruber | 2023
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Language Editor
Adam Frisch | 2023
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