It Happened in Italy - Untold Stories of How the People of Italy Defied the Horrors of the Holocaust

Holocaust, Heroism History


One woman's discovery of how her grandparent's tiny Italian village defied the Nazis and risked everything to shelter - and ultimately save - generations of Jews during the Holocaust and the incredible journey that followed


People absolutely loved to talk in the Italian village Elizabeth Bettina spent
her summers in as a child. Mysteriously enough however, there was one
thing shed, in all her years, never heard—that during the Holocaust,
hundreds of Jews were sheltered by the people that comprised the tiny
village of Campagna. Theyd risked their own lives to hide them from the
Nazis.


Over half a century later, and half a world away, Elizabeth discovered not
only this incredible story, but that many of those saved - and the generations that followed - were living within minutes of her own front door.


Follow her amazing journey to find them, tell their stories, and reconnect
them with each other and this defining time and place in their lives as she
takes them back to Italy ... where they'd stand face to face with both the
Pope and their past.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Elizabeth Bettina is a native New Yorker who lived in Italy.
Elizabeth graduated from Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts. Presently, she works in marketing in New York.

Category:

Education

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• Holocaust
• Italy
• Nazi
• Genocide
• Hitler
• Mussolini
• Bettina
• Campagna
• Jews
• Jewish
• Jew
• Giovanni Palatucci
• Benevento
• Dachau
• internment
• Ferramonti
• Catholic
• Elizabeth Bettina
• Thomas Nelson
• book
• It
• Happened
• in
• Untold
• Stories
• People
• Defied
• Horrors

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The Italians desire to help the Jews reflects our love of life and our decision to not partake in the elimination of our fellow man. Once again, Italy shows how its people performed heroic acts to save thousands of Jews. Over 87 percent of Italys Jews were saved by its people, and thousands from Yugoslavia, France, Albania and Greece