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Wikipedia • The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.

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

Thomas Nelson Publishers
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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. ...more
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It Happened in Italy - Untold Stories of How the People of Italy Defied the Horrors of the Holocaust
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2009Mar 18
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.

Thomas Nelson Publishers

49.2K subscribers