https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A descendant of Italy's wartime King Victor Emmanuel III has apologised to the country's Jewish community for his ancestor's role in dictator Mussolini's racial laws and the Holocaust. https://www.thelocal.it/20210123/italian-kings-heir-apologises-for-monarchys-holocaust-role Sat, 23 Jan 2021 18:22:26 +0100 italian-kings-heir-apologises-for-monarchys-holocaust-role The Vatican unseals the archives of history's most contentious popes on Monday, potentially shedding light on why Pius XII stayed silent during the extermination of six million Jews in the Holocaust. https://www.thelocal.it/20200302/will-archives-reveal-why-ww2-pope-stayed-quiet-on-holocaust Mon, 02 Mar 2020 11:10:46 +0100 will-archives-reveal-why-ww2-pope-stayed-quiet-on-holocaust A candlelit procession will mark the 76th anniversary of the raid on the Jewish ghetto in Rome, in which more than 1,000 people were rounded up and sent to Auschwitz. https://www.thelocal.it/20181016/italy-marks-75-years-since-the-nazi-raid-on-the-rome-ghetto Tue, 16 Oct 2018 18:47:33 +0200 italy-marks-75-years-since-the-nazi-raid-on-the-rome-ghetto Pope Francis announced on Monday that the Vatican will open the secret archives of the wartime pontiff Pius XII in March next year, which could shed light on why the Catholic Church failed to intervene more against the Holocaust. https://www.thelocal.it/20190304/vatican-to-open-archives-of-pius-xii-ww2-pope-accused-of-complicity-in-the-holocaust Mon, 04 Mar 2019 16:08:23 +0100 vatican-to-open-archives-of-pius-xii-ww2-pope-accused-of-complicity-in-the-holocaust Italian Holocaust survivor Liliana Segre has been made a senator for life by the country's president Sergio Mattarella. https://www.thelocal.it/20180122/auschwitz-survivor-liliana-made-senator-for-life-in-italy Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:56:35 +0100 auschwitz-survivor-liliana-made-senator-for-life-in-italy An Italian police chief long celebrated for saving 5,000 Jews during World War II may have in fact been a Nazi collaborator, according to a New York-based institute that studies Italian Jewry. https://www.thelocal.it/20130621/italian-holocaust-hero-exposed-as-nazi-collaborator Fri, 21 Jun 2013 10:30:00 +0200 italian-holocaust-hero-exposed-as-nazi-collaborator A postcard sent by an Italian prisoner of war from a Nazi labour camp in 1944 has finally been delivered, following a series of strange coincidences which led to a high school teacher stumbling across the card on the street. https://www.thelocal.it/20161024/italian-woman-finds-postcard-sent-from-nazi-labour-camp Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:58:12 +0200 italian-woman-finds-postcard-sent-from-nazi-labour-camp Pope Francis paid a sombre visit to the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau on Friday, becoming the third consecutive pontiff to make the pilgrimage to the place where more than 1 million people, most of them Jews, were killed. https://www.thelocal.it/20160730/pope-silently-mourns-holocaust-victims-at-auschwitz Sat, 30 Jul 2016 20:12:09 +0200 pope-silently-mourns-holocaust-victims-at-auschwitz The Italian government has approved a law punishing incitement to racial hatred, including denying the Holocaust and crimes against humanity, with prison sentences of between two and six years. https://www.thelocal.it/20160609/denying-the-holocaust-is-finally-a-crime-in-italy Thu, 09 Jun 2016 12:40:52 +0200 denying-the-holocaust-is-finally-a-crime-in-italy Camp beds, biscuits and bottles of water: each night dozens of asylum seekers find refuge in an unusual yet highly symbolic place, Milan's Holocaust memorial. https://www.thelocal.it/20150703/migrants-take-shelter-in-milan-holocaust-memorial Fri, 03 Jul 2015 10:40:12 +0200 migrants-take-shelter-in-milan-holocaust-memorial Italian senators on Wednesday voted in favour of a bill criminalizing Holocaust denial, following changes to the proposed law to protect freedom of speech. https://www.thelocal.it/20150211/italy-senate-moves-to-outlaw-holocaust-denial Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:04:00 +0100 italy-senate-moves-to-outlaw-holocaust-denial A banner with an anti-Semitic slur daubed on it was hung outside a park in Rome, on the night before Holocaust Memorial Day. https://www.thelocal.it/20150127/rome-anti-semitism-mars-holocaust-memorial-day Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:59:00 +0100 rome-anti-semitism-mars-holocaust-memorial-day Politician Beppe Grillo has refused to apologize to Italy’s Jewish community after the press dubbed him an anti-Semite for publishing an adapted version of Holocaust survivor Primo Levi’s classic ‘If this is a man’. https://www.thelocal.it/20140416/grillo-refuses-to-apologize-for-anti-semitic-post Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:07:00 +0200 grillo-refuses-to-apologize-for-anti-semitic-post Beppe Grillo, the leader of the Five Star Movement (M5S), has outraged Italy’s Jewish community by publishing his own version of the opening verses of Holocaust survivor Primo Levi’s classic ‘If this is a man’ on his blog. https://www.thelocal.it/20140415/grillo-attacked-for-holocaust-poem-parody Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:19:00 +0200 grillo-attacked-for-holocaust-poem-parody As Italy marks 70 years since Rome Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps, the country's Senate has put forward a motion to make Holocaust denial a crime. https://www.thelocal.it/20131016/italy-may-criminalize-holocaust-denial Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:33:00 +0200 italy-may-criminalize-holocaust-denial The Israeli Holocaust museum, Yad Vashem, has honoured an Italian cyclist who risked his life to save Jews during the Second World War. https://www.thelocal.it/20130924/tour-de-france-champ-saved-jews-in-wwii Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:15:00 +0200 tour-de-france-champ-saved-jews-in-wwii