This final episode juxtaposes the letters written by Gemma Vitale Servadio before she was killed in Auschwitz with present-day images of the internment camp in Fossoli where she was temporarily detained with her mother in 1944. Historian Carlo Spartaco Capogreco, preeminent researcher on the deportations from Fascist Italy to Nazi Germany, puts Gemma's story in context and reflects on Italy's unwillingness to fully come to terms with its complicity in the Holocaust.
Directed by Valerio Ciriaci
Italy, 2017
Documentary
Italian, English (with English subtitles)
6 minutes
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