Bologna, 1858. Officials from the Papal States knock on the door of a Jewish family. In their hands they have an order from the Inquisition: to take away Edgardo, one of the eight children of Momolo and Mariana Mortara. The claim: the boy had been baptized
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In June 1953, the Jewish couple Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were electrocuted in a New York prison, convicted of espionage for the Soviet Union. This tragic execution to this day
For 75 years the English Imperial War Museum has preserved documents that, now revealed, add a small and exciting chapter to the history of the Second World War: the existence of a troop of
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Lighting the candles