auschwitzmuseum, 16 October 1943 | Raid of the Ghetto of Rome.
365 German security & police forces sealed off the ghetto. 1,259 people were detained, comprising 363 men, 689 women, and 207 children. Afterwards, non-Jewish people were released while the Jews were detained at the Collegio militare in the Palazzo Salviati in Trastevere.
Two days later, a transport of 1,035 Jews left Tiburtina station and left towards Auschwitz.
Only fifteen men and one woman survived the war.
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