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It Happened in Italy
Event Details
Time: October 14, 2010 from 6pm to 7pm
Location: Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
Street: 500 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 1450
City/Town: Chicago, Illinois 60611
Website or Map: http://www.iicnewyork.esteri.…
Phone: 312-822-9545
Event Type: literary, books, institutions, italy, holocaust, cipa
Organized By: KFAR Jewish Arts Center
Latest Activity: Oct 15, 2010
Event Description
It Happened in Italy (2009) tells the story of World War II Italians who helped save Jews from perishing in Hitler’s “Final Solution.” The author, Elizabeth Bettina, returns to her family’s village of Campagna in the region of Campania, to study the history of that village’s internment camp.
From there she takes the reader on a journey that spans the globe, recording the memories of Jewish holocaust survivors and the Italians who came to their aid.
Ms. Bettina will be accompanied by Ursula Korn Selig, who spent World War II in Italian hideouts that ranged from a convent to a bakery. Elizabeth Bettina is a native New Yorker who has lived in Italy.
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presented in partnership with Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago
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Comment by Bruce Burger on October 15, 2010 at 10:14am -
Looks like a great event. I'm on the other side of the globe and cannot attend however.
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