Days of Memory

It takes victims, blood, and years to rid a country of tyranny. Those are words of a Jewish Italian woman who lived during Fascism and the Holocaust.    Italian Fascism was thuggish and promised order during the chaotic post World War I period. But in its rise, it did not signal what it eventually would aim to destroy, including the lives and livelihoods of Jews. Early on, Italian Fascism was not explicitly anti-Semitic. But 11 years after Mussolini cemented his dictatorship, he began