ROME - Piero Terracina, one of the last survivors of Italy’s tiny Jewish community who were deported to Nazi death camps during World War II, has died. Terracina died on Sunday, Rome’s Jewish Community said. As a 15-year-old, he escaped the roundup by German occupying troops of Rome’s Jews in 1943 and went into hiding with his family. Terracina was described as the last Roman Jew among Italy’s Holocaust survivors at the time of his death. Recently, a police escort was assigned to another Holocaust survivor among Italian Jews, Liliana Segre, who received death threats and hundreds of anti-Semitic insults.

Source: thestar December 08, 2019 15:00 UTC