A family of four Hungarian Jews drowned themselves at Taormina, Sicily, on March 11 by leaping from a rowboat, the New York Times reported today from Rome. They left a letter in the hotel in which they were staying declaring they were “tired of life because we feel alone and friendless.” The family consisted of Mrs. Kuerschner, two sons, Dr. Arthur and Eugene Kuerschner, and a daughter, Renee. They had acquired German citizenship, and were hounded successively to Austria and Italy.
The Fornari family, famous Rome jewelers, arrived here today on the liner Rex. The family, which traced back its origins in Rome 300 years, owned three of the largest jewelry shops in the Italian capital. Two of them were closed and the third “Aryanized” after the Italian anti-Jewish decrees. The family comprises three brothers — Eugenio, Raffaele and Giacomo — with their wives and children.
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