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Livorno, April '44. In the four rooms on the ground floor of a building via Micali 9, are crammed about 90 Jews. Among them a dozen French refugees of Italian origin, you know how you escaped the Nazi roundups of Paris in '40: an odyssey of a thousand miles to end up back in the mouth of the lion. All together (the sick, the elderly, children and refugees) are hidden there for 5 months. Since that is the way of ospedalino Jewish kindergartens and finished in the area of \u200b\u200bthe city seized by the Germans and the Angel in black cassock was made in four to organize the new shelter. Four light touches to the window, the signal. Raphael Nyssa, interrupts the game with the children, cautiously approaches the door and turn the bolt. With relief, he thinks, "It's still him." On the face of sharp Angels don a warm smile. In the hands holding it the usual bundle: food, medicine, clothing, a dollar and the novelty of a small bag, "Here's the flour for your Passover Seder."

The snapshot photographer one of the episodes best known work relief to the brethren of Jews organized by Don Roberto Angeli (pictured), a prominent figure of the Resistance in Tuscany. Barely a month after this act of rare sensitivity, the priest was arrested by the Gestapo and Livorno internship for one year Fossoli camps, Mauthausen and Dachau. Now that the interest on the priest, who died in 1978, is increasing (in 2007 the Diocese of Livorno has reissued the Gospel in the camps, studies and initiatives are multiplying) we understand how complex and extensive the plot was organized in the service network those months.

TIES WITH THE HOLY SEE . From the archives shows that the work of the group of Don Angel (priests and laymen from the sphere of Fuci) was tied hand in glove not only the movement of military resistance in the capital but also to the clandestine network Vatican assistance to Jews and prisoners allies. Don Angel commanded an intelligence service Division of Justice and Freedom of Tuscany and established personal contacts with the Marchioness Giulia Benzoni, with the "Scarlet Pimpernel" Monsignor Hugh O'Flaerty Irish Embassy, \u200b\u200bthe future Cardinal Pietro Palazzini, today listed in the Garden of the Righteous in Jerusalem. Through these channels by the Holy See and the various embassies arrived in aid money, clothing, food, drugs, false documents for dozens of Jews and about 1600 prisoners hidden in various countries around between the areas of Florence, Grosseto, Massa Carrara, Pistoia and Modena.

"God created man, not man Aryan". That Don Angels, was not only a "resistance operational, "but also pointed out, an 'ideological organized resistance." Starting from 1940 in his coterie of social studies at the Confraternity of S. Giulia gave public lectures in which he showed how the Christian doctrine was antithetical to the racist "God created man, not the Aryan man, 'he said once. "I read today - went - a few pages written by Hitler and the most important theorist of Nazism, Rosenberg. Very clear from these quotes, you can understand why the world today suffer the most terrible and bloody tragedy of his story. They are songs that need no comment. "

BAPTISMS and false documents. Thanks to these cultural bases in Livorno the work of Catholics to help Jews were particularly strong. Already immediately after the promulgation of racial laws of the Bishop of Livorno '38 Pigeon John, a close friend of Rabbi Toaff Alfredo (father of former chief rabbi of Rome, Elio), gave precise instructions to clergy and lay people: the Jews are not brothers should be left alone. The Jewish community since the town had 2000 members (the fifth Italian in terms of numbers after Rome, Milan, Trieste and Turin), of whom 116 were captured by the Gestapo and only 16 managed to return. In the curia, under the direct control of the Registrar Don Amedeo Tintori was created an office for granting certificates of baptism to the Jews. "I myself - he said Erminia Cremoni - faeces godmother and confirmation to some young Jews." At the Sisters of St. Teresa Antignano Costituto was a sort of "office documents forgery ': young city employees Vincenzo Dino Lugetti Villoresi and distinguished themselves in the creation of false identity cards.

THE WORK OF ANGELS DON. Angels Don personally takes care of the transfer of 24 Jewish Jewish Jewish dall'ospedalino first in a house in Via Nardini, subsequently, in the Micali. The priest, then testified as the lawyer Giuseppe jew Funaro, "freed from the cassock and roll up your hands, began to do work of a porter. Lasted four days, the transport of the beds, luggage and personal belongings. " In the five months, until it stops the priest, assisted by Father Giuseppe Spagnolo, Erminia Cremona, PaoloBrilli and other young people made sure that nothing was missing for about 90 Jews hiding in via Micali. Together with the young refugee Raphael Nyssa, who was head of the Opera in Paris to protect Jewish children, he organized several trips to find illegal immigrants hiding and protection more secure as the Nazi round-ups became more systematic.

UNIT BY THE TOWN SUFFERING. "We believe - in 1973 the priest commented at a meeting organized by the Jewish community of Livorno - God moves mysteriously profound forces of history that sometimes evil can flourish even good." In the experience of hiding and don Angels camp, saw the seeds to overcome bullies centuries of enmity. "The common fight, the excruciating joint pain brought us closer than ever." It concluded: "We can not therefore express a hope that this approach to progress in an ever deeper friendship and represents a real contribution to mutual understanding between people and groups of different religion or ideology, between peoples and communities."

of Gianluca Maggiore

(published Toscanaoggi No.2 of January 16, 2011)