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This poster is among documents and artifacts in the Museum of the Liberation of Rome, the former headquarters of the Gestapo terror apparatus during the German occupation of Rome during World War II. The building contained a prison where the Gestapo incarcerated and tortured members of the Italian Resistance, mostly Jews and political opponents (including, Jews).
The museum displays newspaper reports of anti-Jewish orders and bans; resistance underground manifestos and handbills; photos and biographies of members ambushed and shot in streets, theaters, offices, research laboratories; blood-stained clothing; and torture tools. In some torture cells, prisoners often nearing death etched or drew on the plaster walls messages and graffiti on life and freedom.
On this somber day in Israel, we are marking Holocaust Remembrance and Heroism Day to remember approximately 6 million Jews, among them 1.5 million children who were annihilated during the Holocaust. As we pledge to never forget, remember also 5 million more who perished during this tragic episode in human history, including Gypsies/Roma, Serbs, Polish intelligentsia, resistance fighters from all nations, German opponents of Nazism, homosexuals, Jehovah Witnesses, people with disabilities, habitual criminals, and the "antisocial" — beggars, vagrants, and hawkers.
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