Testimony of Ilan Claudio Jacobi, born in Rome, Italy, 1939, regarding his experiences as a toddler in a convent and in hiding in Rome

Testimony of Ilan Claudio Jacobi, born in Rome, Italy, 1939, regarding his experiences as a toddler in a convent and in hiding in Rome Escape of his parents and grandparents from Germany to Rome, May 1938; life in Rome; German occupation, September 1943; manhunt for Jews, October 1943; his family receives a warning from neighbors and his family's escape to an abandoned airfield; capture of his father and his father's deportation to Auschwitz; witness is placed in a convent; escape of his mother and grandparents to a hiding place in an apartment in the area of the convent; his mother and grandparents obtain a hiding place in an apartment with help from the mother superior of the convent, Maria Antoniazzi, later recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations; his family receives forged documents; his mother's rescue by residents of the building; payment of bribery to the male concierge of the apartment building where they were in hiding; witness' escape along with his mother and grandparents due to fear of being informed on; life in hiding in an apartment in the center of Rome; suspicion of the new neighbors; his mother obtains a residence permit with help from an acquaintance in the Gestapo office; his mother obtains food with help from a German officer; cutting off of contact with the officer due to fear of being discovered; encounter with German soldiers in a coffee shop; liberation by the US Army, June 1944; end of the war. Aliya to Israel, 1948.