Residents and visitors in Italy’s capital can ride a city bus this month that recounts how a 12-year-old boy escaped Nazi deportation from Rome’s Jewish neighborhood 80 years ago thanks to sympathetic tram drivers. German soldiers rounded up about 1,200 members of the city's tiny Jewish community on Oct. 16, 1943. Emanuele Di Porto, now 92, was one them, but his mother pushed him off a truck that was deporting Jews to Nazi death camps in northern Europe. Di Porto hopped aboard a tram and rode fo
Rome buses recount story of a Jewish boy who rode a tram to avoid deportation by Nazis. He’s now 92ROME — Residents and visitors in Italy’s capital can ride a city bus this month that recounts how a 12-year-old boy escaped Nazi deportation from Rome’s Jewish neighborhood 80 years ago thanks to sympathetic tram drivers.
The bus takes the No. 23 route that skirts Rome’s main synagogue, just like that life-saving tram did, Di Porto told the ticket-taker about the round-up. For two days, he rode the tram, sleeping on board. Sympathetic drivers took turns bringing him food.The Oct. 16 anniversary in Italy marks “one of the most tragic events of of the history of this city, of the history of Italy,″ Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri said. “This date is sculpted in the memory and the heart of everyone.”
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