Obj. ID: 56928  Holocaust memorial plaque at the entrance to the Old synagogue in Pitigliano, Italy, 2001

Memorial Name

No official name

Who/What is Commemorated?

Jewish Holocaust victims born in or with association to Pitigliano;

All citizens of Pitigliano who died during the Second World War

Description:

A rectangular marble plaque with raised bronze letters is affixed in the synagogue courtyard, on a wall to the right of the entrance to the synagogue building. a line from Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi’s poem Se questo e un uomo (also the name of his memoir about survival in Auschwitz) is written beneath.

A second smaller horizontally aligned rectangular plaque, undated, but seemingly affixed next to the first at a later date, provides more information about the victims listed. This plaque, which bears the symbol of “La Piccola Gerusalemme,” is made of a resin or resin coated board with printed text. 

Inscriptions:

in Italian:

FIGLI DI QUESTA COMUNITA EBRAICA TROVARONO ORRIBILE FINE NEI CAMPI DI STERMINIO NAZISTI.  

ANGELO AJO’

LELIA BEMPORAD

EMILIA LEA CAMERINI

ADELE CAMERINO

LEONE CAMERINO

ALDO CAVA

ELDA CAVA MOSCATI

ENZO CAVA

FRANCA CAVA

ALESSANDRO COLOMBO

GOFFREDO PAGGI

GOFFREDO PASSIGLI

JENNY PASSIGLI

ALDO PERGOLA

BIXIO PERGOLA

AFFORTUNATA SERVI

FERNANDA SERVI

IRMA SERVI

ALFREDO SPIZZICHINO

IRIDE SPIZZICHINO

JADER SPIZZICHINO

RINA SPIZZICHINO 

"MEDITATE CHE QUESTO È STATO" (P. LEVI)

UNIAMO NEL RICORDO TUTTI I FIGLI DI PITIGLIANO

CADUTI DURANTE LA SECONDA GUERRA MONDIALE. 

"LA PICCOLA GERUSALEMME" 27/01/2001 

5761 ג בשבט תשס"א

Translation: Children of this Jewish community found a horrible end in the nazi death camps. / [List of names] / “Meditate that this was”  (P. Levi) / Let us unite in remembrance all the children of Pitigliano who fell during the Second World War.

On the second plaque, in Italian::

LE PERSONE RICORDATE IN QUESTA LAPIDE SONO LEGATE

A PITIGLIANO, O PER NASCITA, O PURTROPPO, COME NEL

CASO DELLA FAMIGLIA CAVA, PER LA LORO CATTUREA.

[list of names with biographical information]

Translation: The people remembered on this plaque are linked to Pitigliano, either by birth, or unfortunately, as in the case of the Cava family, by their capture.

Commissioned by

La Piccola Gerusalemme