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‘You’re lucky you’re not soap bars’: Jews forced to leave rally marking WWII end in Italy

www.timesofisrael.com·Ariela Karmel·about 1 month ago
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Several Jews attending a rally in Milan celebrating the anniversary of Italy’s liberation from the Nazis and fascists at the end of World War II were insulted and prevented from continuing along the event’s itinerary on Saturday. Eventually, police urged them to leave for safety reasons. “[Yesterday] marked my 50th year joining the April 25 national rally,” Emanuele Fiano, a former MP for the center-left Democratic Party and the son of an Auschwitz survivor, told the Italian daily Corriere della Sera on Sunday (in Italy, the war ended a few weeks before the official Victory Day celebrated across Europe on May 8). “We were kicked out, I can’t describe it in any other way,” he added.…

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