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Obj. ID: 42201
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  Memorial for Deported Jews at the Synagogue in Siena, Italy, 1948
To the main object: Synagogue in Siena, Italy

© Samuel D. Gruber, Photographer: Gruber, Samuel D., 2018

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

Summary and Remarks
Remarks

2 image(s)

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Name/Title
Memorial for Deported Jews at the Synagogue in Siena | Unknown
Object Detail
Monument Setting
Synagogue (active)
{"10":"Any immovable marker or memorial that specifically references the Holocaust."}
Date
1948
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Origin
Historical Origin
Unknown
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Location
Italy | Tuscany | Siena
| via delle Scotte 14
Site
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Material / Technique
Stone (Travertine)
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Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
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Custom
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Façade (main)
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Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance

The plaque was unveiled on May 12, 1948.

Main Surveys & Excavations
Sources

"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)
Type
Documenter
Samuel D. Gruber | 2018
Author of description
Samuel D. Gruber | 2021
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