An exhibition about Roman buses tells the story of a 12-year-old boy who escaped Nazi deportation 80 years ago by hiding on a tram.
Emanuele Di Porto, now 92, traveled by tram for two days in October 1943 to avoid deportation from Rome’s Jewish quarter, while sympathetic drivers fed and cared for him.
The exhibit, which is on a bus, is part of a commemoration of the 80th anniversary of when German soldiers detained about 1,200 people from the city’s small Jewish community during World War II.
On October 16, 1943, Di Porto’s mother pushed him out of the truck that was deporting Roman Jews to Nazi death camps in northern Europe.
He arrived at a nearby tram stop, got on and told the ticket agent what had happened.
For two days he slept and ate on the tram, while the drivers took turns bringing him food.
“During those two days I was on the tram I didn’t see anything. I always thought about my mother,” Di Porto told The Associated Press.
He never saw his mother again, but he was reunited with his father, who avoided being captured because he was working that morning in another area, and his brothers after a train passenger recognized him.
Emanuele Di Porto was 12 years old when he escaped Nazi deportation by boarding a tram. Di Porto’s mother pushed him out of the truck that was taking them to an extermination camp. AP He traveled by bus for two days and the drivers fed him and took care of him, until he was reunited with his father and his brothers. AP
Residents and visitors to Italy’s capital can take buses, which travel the same route as Di Porto, avoiding Rome’s main synagogue.
Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri said October 16 marks “one of the most tragic events in the history of this city, in the history of Italy.”
Only 16 of the Roman Jews who were deported survived the Nazi death camps.
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Source: vtt.edu.vn