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Italy Recognizes Jewish Couple Who Resisted the Nazis

(Jerusalem Post) Eliav Breuer - On Monday, a park in the heart of Florence, Italy, was named after Wanda Lattes and Albert (Aaron) Nirenstein, a Jewish couple who resisted the Nazis during the Holocaust. Wanda Lattes, born in 1922, joined the Florentine resistance movement and remained active as a partisan until the German retreat in 1944. She transmitted information via bicycle, was responsible for a clandestine network providing medical treatment to wounded partisans, and helped her family find refuge. Albert (Aaron) Nirenstein was born in Poland in 1916 and arrived in Mandatory Palestine in 1936, where he helped found Kibbutz Mishmar Hasharon. His father, brother, stepmother and four young stepsisters were all killed by the Nazis in the Sobibor death camp. In the war years, Nirenstein joined the British army's Jewish Brigade, which ended up in Florence. There he met Lattes and the couple remained in Florence, where he became a Holocaust scholar. Wanda became one of the first female journalists in Italy. Their three daughters are Fiamma, a former member of the Italian Parliament and a Senior Fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; Susanna, also a journalist; and Simona, a psychotherapist.
2021-09-23 00:00:00
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