Baldissera barracks at Lungarno della Zecca Vecchia, Firenze
Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station
Freight Train
Auschwitz Birkenau,Extermination Camp,Poland
Transport from Firenze (Florence) and Bologna to Auschwitz on November 9, 1943
Wehrmacht troops entered Firenze (Florence) on September 11, 1943.[1] According to the racial census of August 22, 1938, the capital of Tuscany was home to 2,326 Jews (compared to 2,730 Jews in 1931), while another 3,605 Jews lived in the rest of the province.[2] On September 13, 1943, the German military authorities in Florence ordered the Prefecture to release their data about Jewish residents.[3]...