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* 30 Reflections My interest in Italian Jews who fled their native homeland for the U . S . is personal, given my identification as a second - generation of Holocaust survivors . I was attracted by Benigni's alternative experience, so completely different from the family narratives I was used to hear . To an extent, I had been exposed to other side of the Holocaust, a positive facet . I heard the dramatic vicissitudes recounted time and again by my parents during my childhood . As an assimilated and secular Italian, prior to the discriminatory race laws of 1938 – they knew they were Italian . My North Italian parents survived Salò’s Republic and the Nazi invasion of September By the age of eleven, my mother's family left Milan for a village in Piedmont, adopted an . 1943 alternative identity and pretended to be evacuees from Allies airstrikes . They revised their identity presenting themselves as Southern Italian refugees, from the territories occupied by the Allies . Everybody had to ...
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