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Italy and the Holocaust: The Hidden Story

November 06, 2017

Italy and the Holocaust: The Hidden Story

As told by Elizabeth Bettina in her 2009 book, "It Happened in Italy," the story of how her grandparents' small village of Campagna, Italy, helped save Jews during the Holocaust.

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