1. Piero Terracina was an Italian Jewish manager, Holocaust survivor.
12 Facts About Piero Terracina
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Piero Terracina was one of the survivors of the extermination camp at Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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Piero Terracina was born in Rome into an Italian Jewish family, the last of the four children of Giovanni Terracina and Lidia Ascoli.
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Piero Terracina continued his studies in Jewish schools until the summer of 1943.
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The whole Piero Terracina family was detained for a few days in the Regina Coeli prison in Rome, and after a brief stay in the Fossoli camp, on 17 May 1944, was then sent to deportation.
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Piero Terracina was beaten and divided by the rest of his family.
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Piero Terracina's mother embraced him and never saw her again, the father with his grandfather, as they started towards the gas chamber, greeted him, while he was imprisoned, stripped and shaved, marked with the number A-5506.
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Piero Terracina asks another prisoner where his parents were and is told that they have been murdered and burned and come out as black smoke from the chimneys.
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Piero Terracina was a prisoner, plundered of his dignity as a human being, not a man but an object, a piece.
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Piero Terracina was later taken to the hospital in Lviv.
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Piero Terracina participated in travels for memory of the Shoah with schools.
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Piero Terracina is buried in the Verano cemetery, next to Shlomo Venezia, who survived Auschwitz.