Enemy Number One

October 16 is an important date for the Jews of Rome and for Italians more widely: it is the day on which the first large-scale roundup took place in Italy, in which over a thousand people of every age, gender and background were targeted. This volume aims to provide an overview of the research that has taken place on the deportation of 1,020 Jews captured during the roundup carried out in Rome. In each paper, an attempt is made to stress the complexity of the Nazi occupation of the capital city. Indeed, it not only deals with the Ghetto, but the city as a whole: Jews, Catholics, Carabinieri, SS officers, German soldiers and police officers, members of the Italian resistance, fascists and collaborators. Not only does it delve into the events of 1943 to 1944, but it also examines how the Jewish community of Rome came to terms with the tragedy to which they were subjected and the repercussions that this had on the collective national memory in the post-war period. The identification of the exact spot on the platform of Tiburtina Station from which the train carrying those who were deported to Auschwitz departed is a respectful way to mark the significance of a site that epitomizes the deportation of the Italian Jews.

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• Editor's Note
• ""Enemy Number One"", Il Messaggero, 16 October 1943
• A Word of Welcome by Riccardo Di Segni
• Preface by Marina Giannetto
• Preface by Alessandra Di Castro
• Michele Sarfatti, The Roundup of the Jews of Rome, 16 October 1943: Context and New Insights
• Luciano Zani, The Roundup of the Roman Carabinieri on 7 October 1943: A Prologue to 16 October
• Yael Calo, Lia Toaff, The Jewish Community of Rome in the Autumn of 1943: Extortion and Deportation
• Enrico Serventi Longhi, The Jewish Journalist Edoardo Ricchetti: Discriminated Against, Rounded Up on 16 October and Killed in Auschwitz
• Lorenzo Grassi, The Platform in Rome Tiburtina Station from which the ""Death Train"" Departed on 18 October 1943
• Gabriella Yael Franzone, The Jewish Community of Rome and 16 October 1943: Coping with Crisis, Processing Grief, Building Memory
• Damiano Garofalo, The Memory of the Holocaust: Resistance and the Christological Paradigm. Carlo Lizzani's L'Oro di Roma (1961)
• Marina Giannetto, 16 October 1943 in the Speeches of the Presidents of the Republic
• Appendices
• I. Furio Colombo: ""I ask you to give me 443 votes for the Day of Remembrance""
• II. Mureddu's Report
• III. Mureddu's Statement
• IV. Segre's Report
• Index of Names

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• Edited by Yael Calo
• Edited by Lia Toaff
• Edited by Luciano Zani