Search & Research, Lectures and Papers 8: Persecution, Indifference, and Amnesia - The restoration of Jewish rights in postwar Italy

Ilaria Pavan, a scholar of contemporary Italian Jewish history, discusses the sensitive issue of the postwar restitution of Jewish property in Italy looted during WWII. Lacking a system for the automatic return of assets, the reconstruction policies included a cover-up of the local role played in the antisemitic past and persecutions, creating enormous obstacles.