Obj. ID: 50490 Holocaust Memorial Plaque at the Jewish School in Rome, Italy, 1950s(?)
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
112 Jewish Students from Rome who were deported to Death Camps
Description:
The marble plaque on building Via Tempio 5 (a school) quotes Lamentations 1.18: "Hear, all you peoples, and behold my suffering; my maidens and my young men have gone into captivity." It then adds in Italian: "In perpetual memory of the 112 pupils of these schools killed in the Nazi extermination camps."
Inscriptions
Hebrew
שמעו נא כל העמים וראו מכאבי
בתולותי ובחורי הלכו בשבי (איכה א-י"ח)
Italian
Udite. O genti! Guardate il mio dolore:
le mie ragazze ed i miei giovani sono stati deportati
(Lamentazioni 1-18)
Translation: Hear, all you peoples, and behold my agony: my maidens and my youths have gone into captivity (Lamentations 1:18) [translation via JPS 1985]
Italian
In perpetuo ricordo
dei 112 allievi di queste scuole
soppressi nei campi di sterminio nazisti
Translation: In perpetual memory of the 112 pupils of these schools suppressed in the Nazi extermination camps
Hebrew
יהי זכרם ברוך
Translation: May their memories be a blessing [traditional Jewish mourning formula akin to the Christian "rest in peace"]
Commissioned by
The Jewish Community of Rome [to be confirmed]
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Via del Tempio houses the school offices of the Jewish community of Rome and a primary school. Secondary schools are located in the building but are entered from Via Portico d’Ottavia. Among the more than 2,000 Roman Jews arrested and deported to death camps were 112 students in Jewish schools.