On April 25, 2022, the anniversary of the Liberation of Italy, EHRI partner in Milan, Fondazione CDEC presented new research on the Jewish contribution to the Italian Resistance.

A new website will allow the visitor to consult data related to the research work carried out by Liliana Picciotto, Head of Historical Research at Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea CDEC, with the support of a group of researchers and documentalists. The first part of the project is dedicated to central Italy and specifically to the regions of Campania, Lazio and Tuscany. In the near future, the research will be extended to all other regions that were occupied by Nazi Germany during 1943-1945.

The website will present a database with over 240 profiles of Jews that participated in the Resistance, including personal data and resistance events, with the relevant reference sources. In addition, a digital exhibition will illustrate ten biographies of men and women whose stories have been identified as paradigmatic for courage and spirit of rebellion. Original photographs, documents and podcasts will narrate their exceptional lives.

The website is online from April 25: Resistenti ebrei d'Italia

Image: CDEC