The Union of Jewish Communities of Italy has submitted a memorandum to the Ministry of Interior asking for a review of the Jewish community’s case against the burial of non-Jews in the portion of Rome cemetery reserved for Jews.
The memorandum points out that the matter is going to become one of major importance as the years go on and more former Jews converted to Catholicism during the fascist regime die. Many of these former Jews purchased burial plots in the Jewish section and were interred in the Jewish section when they died. The Rome municipality, supported by the Ministry of Interior, insists that these non-Jews cannot be denied burial in the Jewish section because the cemetery is not exclusively Jewish.
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