Tombstone (Padua)

Pass on, pass on, you lonely grandfathers, With frightened beards covered with snow, In the last sorrow, in the final grief You’re still here, the final witnesses. Pass on, pass on, you lonely…

The Scuola Grande Tedesca is the oldest of five synagogues in the Venetian ghetto and was built in 1528 by the local Ashkenazic community. Although only its five windows are visible from the street…

The men, women, and children who arrived, physically destroyed, at the death camp, had only one fixed idea: to survive. The average person, living in a bustling metropolis and enjoying freedom to a…