Special commemorative ceremonies in honor of the Italian Jewish resistance heroine, Rita Rosani, have been held here under the auspices of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities. Highlight of the ceremonies was the decision taken to name a street in the center of this city for her. A fighter in a partisan brigade she was killed in action against Nazi-Fascist forces in the hills near here on Sept. 17, 1944.
In addition to the naming of the street, she was posthumously awarded a medal for military valor and a memorial plaque in her honor near the synagogue here was unveiled. The commemorative ceremonies here climaxed a series of observances of the tenth anniversary of the liberation of Italy which began last April, under the auspices of a special committee of the Union. The observances were opened in Milan with the award of medals to a number of non-Jewish Italians who had risked their lives to rescue Jews during the war.
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