Facsimile of a 70th anniversary Stolperstein for a Jewish Italian teenager
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 7.625 inches (19.368 cm) | Width: 9.125 inches (23.178 cm) | Depth: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm)
Creator(s)
- Amelia Levi (Subject)
- La Targa (Manufacturer)
Biographical History
Amelia Levi was born on May 30, 1927, to Jewish parents, Marco and Pia Levi, in Saluzzo, Italy. Yielding to pressure from their ally, Nazi Germany, the Italian government passed anti-Jewish legislation in 1938. However, Italian military authorities generally refused to participate in deportations or other actions directed toward the mass murder of Jews. After the Axis alliance surrender in North Africa on May 13, 1943, followed by the Allied landings in Sicily on July 10, Mussolini was deposed. On September 8, Italy surrendered to the Allies and Germany occupied nortern and central Italy. The SS and other German authorities began to round-up Jews and set up transit camps. On January 26, 1944, Amelia was arrested by the Germans and imprisoned in Borgo San Dalmazzo transit camp near the French border. She was deported on convoy 8 to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German occupied Poland where she was killed in September 1944.
Archival History
The plaque was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Alessandro Capellaro, on behalf of the town of Saluzzo and the Istituto d'Arte "G. Soleri" e "A. Bertoni."
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Istituto di Istruzione Superiore "G. Soleri" e "A. Bertoni"
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Scope and Content
Facsimile of a plaque created in 2012 to honor the memory of Amelia Levi, age 17, who was deported from Saluzzo, Italy, to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German occupied Poland and murdered. The plaque was created by students of the Art Institute G.Solei-Bertoni, in Saluzzo, as a Stolperstein [stumbling block] for possible placement at the site of the home where Amelia had lived. Stolpersteine were originated by Gunter Demnig as an ongoing art project to memorialize victims of National Socialism in front of their last place of residence. On January 26, 1944, Amelia was arrested by the Germans and imprisoned in Borgo San Dalmazzo transit camp near the French border. She was deported on convoy 8 to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German occupied Poland where she was killed in September 1944. Amelia was the youngest of twenty-one Jewish residents of Saluzzo who were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Rectangular, dark blue velvet covered fiberboard presentation case with a square, gold colored polished metal tile attached on the lid interior to fiberboard covered on the front with velvet and on the back with white moire cloth. The tile has 6 lines of Italian text inscribed in black paint. When the case is opened, the plaque swings down and rests upright in the base. The front of the lid flap has a silver colored metal snap cap with a corresponding socket with engraved, English text on the base. The base and lid interior are lined with white moire patterned cloth; the sides with dark blue velvet. There is a plastic manufacturer's seal inside the base.
on plaque, black paint : QUI ABITAVA / AMELIA LEVI / UCCISA AD / AUSCHWITZ / ALL'ETA DI 17 ANNI / PERCHÈ EBREA [Here lived Amelia Levi killed at Auschwitz at the age of 17, because she was a Jew.] base interior, on sticker, handwritten, blue ink : LA TARGA / Premiazioni / SALUZZO [La Targa / Awards / Saluzzo]
Subjects
- Holocaust memorials--Italy--Saluzzo--Biography.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Anniversaries, etc.
- Deportees--Italy--Saluzzo.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Italy--Saluzzo.
- Holocaust victims--Italy--Saluzzo--Biography.
- Jews--Italy--Saluzzo--Biography.
Genre
- Object
- Identifying Artifacts