Riccardo Di Segni

Is the Vatican trying to distort how Pius XII behaved towards Jews?

A day after the opening of the archives about the controversial pope who served between 1939 and 1958, an archive official paints an apologetic picture and the chief rabbi of Rome denounces it.

MARCH 4, 2020|ByROSSELLA TERCATIN

Pope Pius XII, the wartime pontiff, appears in an undated file photo from the archives of Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano.

Inauguration of Elio Toaff Street in Rome in October 2019.

Rome names a street after historic Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff

Toaff served as Chief Rabbi of Rome from 1951 to 2001. He was instrumental in turning a Jewish community that was still devasted from the Holocaust into a prosperous center of Jewish life.

OCTOBER 31, 2019|ByROSSELLA TERCATIN

A moment of the march commemorating the October 16, 1943 Nazi raid. The event took place on Octoer 12, 2019.

Rome commemorates Nazi raid on ghetto on October 16, 1943

The Nazi raid targeting the ancient Jewish neighborhood of the Italian capital, as well as Jews living in the rest of the city, started at 5:15 a.m on Shabbat.

OCTOBER 16, 2019|ByROSSELLA TERCATIN

Artist Gunter Demnig lays Stolpersteine, small brass plaques that commemorate victims of the Nazis, in Cologne in 2015

Holocaust memorial stone vandalized in Rome

The sticker was cut to perfectly fit the stone and read a message in German: “The murderer always returns to the scene of the crime.”

MAY 30, 2019|ByROSSELLA TERCATIN