More than 1000 Roman Jews were taken from their houses on October 16th 1943 during the Nazi occupation of Rome: they were deported in Auschwitz concentration camp. Only 16 of them, and only one woman, came back to their homes.
In Robert Katz' site ( http://www.theboot.it/sedici_ottobre.html)
introducing
Black Sabbathhis book recalling the holocaust
Torn from their homes on a Sabbath day of October, then sent on a journey to oblivion, a thousand victims form a single history that by the power of remembrance lives on in the hearts of millions. Less remembered, however, is their second Sabbath, one week later, the day of their oblivion.
One reason may be that only 15 men and one woman lived to tell of their ordeal. "I made a promise to God," the woman admitted late in her life. "I didn't know whether to curse God or pray to Him, but I said, 'Lord, save me; save me so that I can return and recount.” Her name was Settimia Spizzichino, and from 1945 – when she was found by the Allies in a pile of death-camp corpses – until she died more than a half-century later, she never stopped recounting.
Her recollections along with other survivors were a major source for the reconstruction rendered in Robert Katz's Black Sabbath: a Journey Through a Crime Against Humanity.
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