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Nathan Cassuto was an Italian Jewish ophthalmologist who served in the rabbinate of Milan and was appointed Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community of Florence at the end of 1942.
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The Cassuto family in Milan, 1942
A memorial plaque at the site of Rabbi Cassuto's arrest on Via Pucci
Gross-Rosen was a network of Nazi concentration camps built and operated by Nazi Germany during World War II. The main camp was located in the German village of Gross-Rosen, now the modern-day Rogoźni
Nathan Cassuto
…that she was still alive. In January 1945, as the Soviet Red Army approached Auschwitz, the Nazis forced thousands of prisoners on a death march to Gross-Rosen concentration camp (now Rogoźnica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland). Cassuto was among them. Cassuto is presumed to have died in mid-February 1945. A fellow inmate…
Gross-Rosen entrance gate with the phrase Arbeit Macht Frei
Model of the Gross-Rosen main camp from the Rogoźnica Museum
Gross-Rosen memorial
Remains of the crematorium