The town of Saluzzo commemorated yesterday the 20th anniversary of the Italian anti-Nazi resistance against the German occupation with a “Deportees Day” which included religious ceremonies in Jewish, Catholic and Protestant rites.
Senator A. Caleffi, Undersecretary of Public Education and president of the Italian Association of Former Deportees, recalled the sufferings of the victims of Nazi concentration camps. A memorial stone dedicating a street to the memory of Jewish deportees was unveiled.
During the occupation, Saluzzo was an important center of partisan activity. Many young Jews from Piedmont fought among the partisans against the Germans, and perished.
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