Obj. ID: 42201
Jewish Architecture Memorial for Deported Jews at the Synagogue in Siena, Italy, 1948
To the main object: Synagogue in Siena, Italy
Who is Commemorated?
Fourteen Jews of Siena deported during the Second World War
Description
An inscribed rectangular marble plaque attached to the brick façade of the Siena synagogue with four metal bolts, to the left of the main entrance.
Inscription
The inscription in Italian reads:
FURONO PUR VERI I CAMPI DI SPIETATO ANNIENTAMENTO
INCREDIBILI STRUMENTI DI DISUMANA PREPOTENZA
CON SEI MILIONI DI EBREI VI SCOMPARVERO I DEPORTATI DA SIENA
FIGLI DI UA DOTTRINA DI GIUSTIZIA E DI AMORE
CON CARITA E BENEDIZIONE SIANO I LORO NOMI RICORDATI
Translation: The camps of ruthless annihilation were true / Incredible tools of inhuman power / With six million Jews the deportees from Siena will disappear / Children of a doctrine of justice and love / With charity and blessing their names are remembered
RAB. HASDA PROF. AUGUSTO |
ANNI |
70 |
HASDA SEGRE BETTINA |
“ |
68 |
BELGRADO UBALDO |
“ |
52 |
BRANDES ERNESTA |
“ |
85 |
FORTI LIVIA |
“ |
55 |
NISSIM GINA |
“ |
47 |
NISSIM MARCELLA |
“ |
20 |
NISSIM GRAZIELLA |
ANNI |
14 |
SADUN GINO |
“ |
71 |
SADUN AIO ADELE |
“ |
64 |
VALECH DAVIDE |
“ |
64 |
VALECH MICHELE |
“ |
68 |
VALECH FERRUCCIO |
“ |
13 |
VALECH MOROSINA |
“ |
21 |
The inscription in Hebrew reads:
תהי נפשם צרורה בצרור החיים
Translation: Let their souls be bound in the bundle of life
Commissioned by
Jewish Community of Siena
sub-set tree:
The plaque was unveiled on May 12, 1948.
"Anti Jewish Persecution in Tuscany,” Museum and Documentation Centre of Deportation and Resistance – Memorial Sites in Tuscany website., http://www.museodelladeportazione.it/en/the-deportation-of-jews-from-tuscany/ (accessed December 13, 2021)
Bemporad, Dora Liscia and Anna Marcela Tedeschi Falco,.eds. Tuscany Jewish Itineraries: Place, History and Art (Venice: Marsilio, 1997).
Sacerdoti, Annie. The Guide to Jewish Italy, photographs by Alberto Jona Falco (New York: Rizzoli, 2004)
Sacerdoti, Annie. The Guide to Jewish Italy, photographs by Alberto Jona Falco (Venice, 2008)