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Messauda Fadlun, seen in old photos, was living in Libya in 1938 when it was an Italian colony and under the racist laws targeting the Jewish community. (Courtesy of Ariel Finzi/ via JTA)
JTA In 2012, Messauda Fadlun received a letter from the Italian government asking her to return all the money she had been receiving as part of a restitution program for those racially persecuted by the fascist regime during World War II.
Fadlun, an Italian-Libyan Jew, and her family were shocked.
“We thought there had been a mistake,” said Ariel Finzi, Fadlun’s son, who is the rabbi of Naples. “Worst case, we presumed the government would stop paying for the pension, but not that we would have to return the money.”
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Robert Philpot is a writer and journalist. He is the former editor of Progress magazine and author of “Margaret Thatcher: The Honorary Jew.”
The Wedgwood arriving in Haifa, 1 July 1946. (Donated to the Clandestine Immigration and Naval Museum, Haifa by Brigadier General Nir
Maor/ Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0)
Rabbi Abraham Klausner, hatless, center-left, with survivors in the displaced persons camp. (Courtesy Amos Klausner)
Yehuda Arazi with David and Paula Ben-Gurion in Israel. (Courtesy Orli Bach)
Famous photo of Avengers partisan group led by Abba Kovner. Kneeling in the front aiming his gun is Benjamin Levin. (public domain)
Children rescued from Nazi concentration camps in Europe arrive at the Atlit detention camp near Haifa in 1945. (GPO)
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Simhah Viterbo, Italian, 1739â1779; Torah Ark Curtain (Parokhet) , 1755; silk, silk and metallic thread, vellum, metal paillettes, cotton thread, velvet, metallic fringe, linen backing; 87 Ã 66 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, The Deane and Paul Shatz Endowment Fund for Judaica 2:2019