When: Thursday, illness January 26, unhealthy 2017 From 5:30 pm To 8:30 pm
Where: Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Ave, New York, NY 10021
Organized by : ICI - In collaboration with : Primo Levi Center - Entrance : Free

Anna Pizzuti, curator of the database and historical portal on foreign Jews in Italy during World War II, presents her work. Film screening, E42 by Cynthia Madansky, produced during her fellowship at the American Academy in Rome.

In 1938 the Racial Laws stripped of their citizenship Jews who had acquired Italian citizenship after 1919 and ordered all "foreign" and "stateless" Jews to leave the country by March 12, 1939. Approximately 9,000 Jews managed to leave with the assistance of Delasem and the Joint Distribution Committee. Another 4,000 had no means and place to go and remained in Italy in a precarious situation. When Italy entered the war in 1940, Mussolini ordered the immediate arrest of all foreign Jews who had remained in the country.

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Source: http://www.iicnewyork.esteri.it/