Heading: (Judaism - Holocaust)
Author: Ducci, Roberto (Verax")"
Title: Italiani ed ebrei in Jugoslavia
Place Published: Roma
Publisher:
Date Published: 1944
Description: In "Politica Estera", Anno I, Numero 9, Ottobre 1944. Pp. 21-29. Whole issue offered, 95, [1] pp. 19.5x14.5 pp. (7¾x5¾"), wrappers.Article on the rescue of Jews in the Italian Zone of occupied Croatia during the Second World War. According to Daniel Carpi on the Yad Vashem website this is the first document to deal with the topic. On the front cover, the story is highlighted "Come l'Italia salvò gli ebrei croati", i.e. "How Italy saved Croatian Jews".Extract from Yad Vashem:
"This topic was dealt with for the first time in a short article which appeared in 1944, a few months after the liberation of Rome by the Allied armies. The author, who concealed his true identity behind the pen name Verax, relied upon the documents of the Italian Foreign Ministry. He apparently was a member of the group of high-ranking officials who planned and initiated the major rescue operations.... Following the appearance of this brief essay, a few months after the end of the war, the Italian Foreign Ministry published a memorandum, which for some reason was classified as "restricted" (Riservato), on its activities "to protect the Jewish communities during the years 1938-1943"...
"Verax" is Roberto Ducci, at that time head of the "Croatian Office" in the Foreign Ministry and later the Italian ambassador to the United Kingdom.

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