‘Always Remember Your Name’ Timeline: Italy’s role in World War II and the Holocaust
Updated: 10:08 PM PDT Oct 27, 2024
Si so Su Grande Grande Fredo, it wasn’t such *** huge leap of the imagination for Italians to also join in and participate in the persecution of Jews. It was sophisticated and planned and industrialized. How did, how did Children survive? I, I don’t know, maybe I was more strong. We become the witnesses. Chetan, you know, um when you’re here with me, you’re doing it with me. Um But when I’m gone, then you’re doing it for me. Seeing it in real life is much more impactful than just setting it in the book. So I really wanted to come here and experience it for myself. Oh my God. Every time she tells her story, there’s new things. There’s something you’ve never heard before, whether you were at Auschwitz or at another camp, you became *** number. You became *** thing in nec, say Cuatro to your mother seemed to know why they would put *** tattoo on you and refer to you by number. And she told you something very important about your own name. What is it she told you? Yes, always remember your name.
‘Always Remember Your Name’ Timeline: Italy’s role in World War II and the Holocaust
Updated: 10:08 PM PDT Oct 27, 2024
Italy’s history as an Axis power during World War II under Fascist Benito Mussolini is well-known. But a story less told is the Italian government’s impact on its citizens—Jews in particular.Born in the 1930s, Andra and Tatiana Bucci grew up in Fiume—a region now incorporated into Croatia, but once a northern province of Italy. Born to a Jewish mother and Catholic father, the family was ostracized by others in the community and eventually sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp complex when the sisters were 4 and 6 years old. Andra Bucci now lives in the Sacramento area. KCRA 3 tells their story in our documentary “Always Remember Your Name.” Watch the documentary here. According to Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, 7,680 out of 44,500 Italian Jews were killed in the Holocaust. The following timeline illustrates Italy’s role leading up to and during World War II and its impact on Andra and Tatiana Bucci, two of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust.
Italy’s history as an Axis power during World War II under Fascist Benito Mussolini is well-known. But a story less told is the Italian government’s impact on its citizens—Jews in particular.
Born in the 1930s, Andra and Tatiana Bucci grew up in Fiume—a region now incorporated into Croatia, but once a northern province of Italy. Born to a Jewish mother and Catholic father, the family was ostracized by others in the community and eventually sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp complex when the sisters were 4 and 6 years old. Andra Bucci now lives in the Sacramento area.
According to Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, 7,680 out of 44,500 Italian Jews were killed in the Holocaust.
The following timeline illustrates Italy’s role leading up to and during World War II and its impact on Andra and Tatiana Bucci, two of the youngest survivors of the Holocaust.