The Tuscan House Quotes

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― Angela Petch, The Tuscan House

“Never forget,’ he said, ‘how proud we are that the first Jewish prime minister in Europe was Italian. Luigi Luzzatti’s name should never be forgotten. And remember all the famous Italian Jews who contributed to the importance of this nation: those who introduced printing to Italy and all our famous Jewish authors, poets, scientists and inventors. Each and every day we should strive to be the best people we can be, and remain proud of our heritage.”
― Angela Petch, The Tuscan House

“Next to frayed notices exhorting citizens to eat less sugar and salt (which few had tasted recently anyway), and next to the propaganda images of American soldiers killing little children, there were posters advertising sums of lire for the capture of Jews. There was money to be earned for handing them over to the authorities so that they could be deported, imprisoned or worse. Natalia ripped down a cartoon of a Jewish man, his tongue being cut off with a pair of scissors. As she tore it into shreds and scattered the pieces, she frightened herself with the vehemence of her anger, for she felt like cutting off the tongue of the designer of this vile propaganda. Pulling stumps of chalk from their pockets, the two girls wrote in bold letters on the brick walls. EVVIVA LA CLN – Long live the committee of national liberation”
― Angela Petch, The Tuscan House

“When newspapers like Il Lambello told their readers to hate Jews and suggested Jews should all wear brightly coloured bracelets to warn against infection, when they printed lies about how Jews were profiting from the war and described them as rabid dogs, then it was hard for the credulous to distinguish the truth from lies.”
― Angela Petch, The Tuscan House

“Since the Germans marched into Italy in 1943, like a khaki-green snake, Jews had begun to be hunted everywhere and their papà’s work colleague, signor Zanelli, had been more than courageous to offer them a safe haven.”
― Angela Petch, The Tuscan House