About 12,000 Jews resided in Rome, Italy before German occupation took place. Life in Rome for the Jewish population was okay, although they were aware of the horrors that were to be committed by the Germans. Before September 1943, Germans were planning to have Rome's Jews deported, beginning in October 1943, when Jews from all of Rome were seized by German SS and eventually shipped to death camps, especially Auschwitz-Birkenau.
However, only 1,800 of Rome's Jews were deported. over 10,000 of Rome's Jews survived.
PHOTO ANALYSIS
(circa. 1940: Jewish children play in the courtyard.)
(circa 1999: three-year-old Hannah plays outside.)
While browsing through the boxes of family photos and photo albums, I would look at a photo of me as a child playing and almost immediately think of the images of Jewish children playing. I noticed some major similarities, since both the Jewish children and my family both basically lived our/their lives in happiness with almost no fear of being targeted. In all honesty, I really think Jewish people's daily lives weren't good or bad: they were somewhat in between. Before German occupation, daily life for them was just like daily life for us: there were families, they went to work, children played, etc. However, I don't think Jewish daily life was THAT great: Jews had been persecuted for a while prior to WWII, so the Holocaust almost seems like nothing new.
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