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dissidents. In San Donato Val Comino more than two dozen people, mostly foreign nationals residing in
Florence, were forced to find residence and to check in to the police twice a day. The internment ended when on April 6, 1944, German soldiers took 16 of those interned out of town and to Auschwitz. The rest of the 28 escaped into the mountains. The youngest internee, age 2, hid with the Cardarelli family until her parents who had escaped a month or two earlier came to retrieve her.
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and his fiancee mention Bloch being in some unknown trouble. Later during the war, Grete Bloch, as did all the internees, worked hard to find ways to leave Italy. She wrote letters to old friends of Franz Kafka in
Switzerland. In those letters she says she had a son by Kafka though the son died as a child. Grete Bloch was martyred in
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the mother of Kafka's son, though she made claims to such. In
Chapter 26 of The Decisive Years (published in 2013), there is evidence of her friendship with Kafka's fiancee Felice Bauer, on whose behalf Grete Bloch intervened when Kafka broke their engagement. At that time, the letters between Kafka
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The historian Anna
Pizzuti published "Vite Di Carta: Storie di Ebrei Stranieri Internati dal Fascismo" in 2010. She has an extensive database online with details of about the Italian internment camps and the victims. In 2010, a collection of scholarly essays was edited by Domenico Cedrone, Gli Ebrei
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Origins of San Donato Val di Comino are
Samnite: the town was called Cominium and was devastated by the Romans in 293 BC. The Lombards took over its territory in the 8th century AC. The actual village was born after the Battle of Garigliano in 915: the populations of Cassinate, Beneventano and Itri
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According to scholars, the history of San Donato Val Di Comino dates back to the Romans and the region had been dominated by Romans, Lombards and various noble families and royalties over the centuries. The town is known for its ancient houses and monuments, built on the slopes of the surrounding
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had Jews and other prisoners of the fascist state living and "renting" space in villagers' homes or hotel. During the implementation of the racial laws, San Donato Val Comino became the destination for "stateless" Jews (whose ID documentation was no longer valid in occupied Europe) and political
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San Donato Val di Comino is a delightful village to visit, not only for its monuments and churches but also because it is the perfect starting point for open-air excursions among the beech forests of Forca d'Acero or for sporting activities such as hang-gliding, paragliding and climbing.
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began to move towards the mountains between Lazio and
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One of the 30 internees who were forced to live in San Donato during the war, was
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The historian Max Brod located a message sent by the
British Red Cross on May 16, 1945, according to which M.M. was clubbed to death by a German soldier, shortly after being detained.
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