Bloodless Torture: The Nazi Theft of the Books of the Roman Ghetto

In September 1943, the Nazi occupied Rome. A month later, a special unit of the SS paid a visit to the Synagogue and Rabbinical College. Returning the next day, they confiscated thousands of valuable and irreplaceable books and manuscripts, some dating back to the Middle Ages, and sent the collections to Frankfurt. The fate of the libraries is one of the lesser-known stories of World War II.

Presenter:
Stanislao G. Pugliese, PhD, Professor of History
Queensboro UNICO Distinguished Professsor of Italian and Italian American Studies
Hofstra University

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