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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.12,0:00:00.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,People from Here
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Welcome to People from Here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What we want to tell you today\Nis the story of two young people,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of two young people with high hopes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is Adelina,\Na brilliant lawyer who works
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at a prestigious legal firm in Milan.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then there is Hector,\Nan industrial chemist.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The future can only smile\Nat Adelina and Hector.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Actually,\Ntheir future will be more turbulent
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than they could have ever imagined.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The fact is,\Nin 1938 Hector and Adelina are Jewish.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On September 18th,\Nin the town of Trieste,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Benito Mussolini announced Racial Laws\Nfor the first time,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the defense of the race.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world of those two young people\Nsuddenly collapses under their feet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will tell this story\Nof Hector and Adelina
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and about the eve of the day.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will tell it with the son\Nof Hector and Adelina,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Daniele Finzi, who in 2011, decided\Nto donate his parents letters
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and documents\Nto The Archives of Pieve Santo Stefano.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shortly we will also discuss why\Nthis choice was made.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would like to start precisely\Nwith September 1938,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with Mussolini's announcement\Nof the laws for the defense of the race.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hector and Adelina immediately started\Nto understand that there was no future
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for them in that country.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To leave their country was\Na difficult decision,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but one that will save their lives.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, my father Hector Finzi had\Nvery deep historical knowledge.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Also because he knew German very well.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had two aunts, aunt Genie\Nand aunt Lazagudita Gentiluomo,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who both lived in Vienna.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had followed all\Nthe Nazi antisemitism up to March 1938.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when the race manifesto was published\Nin July 1938, he didn't expect it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He knew what our limits were\Nand he also hoped
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that Italy was perhaps\Na little different from Germany.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And my father, more than my mother,\Nmade quick and immediate decisions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was also very intuitive.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had known my mom only\Na few month in 1938.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was love at first sight\Nand because of the race manifesto,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Racial Laws,\Nthey decided to get married.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were married in Milan\Non December 1, 1938.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1938. We arrive in 1939.\N- Yes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A manifest date for many.\N- Yes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Very unjust, but there is a turning point.\N- There is a turning point.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hector and Adelina decide to leave.\NOr rather, how do they depart?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because, in a way,\Nthey leave well informed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes and no.\NThe problem is immediate
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that of money.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the White Paper of the British,\Na policy from maybe February
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or March of 1939, \Nallowed a total of 75,000 Jews
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to enter Palestine for five years.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But to qualify, \Nevery person needed to have 1,000 stars.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like we had said, they had chosen.\NThe goal was Palestine.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The choice was not a coincidence,\Nbecause my father had also thought
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Latin America.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the idea of going \Nto Palestine was because it was nearby.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He also hoped his parents could join him.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In any case, \Nthe issue of money was really
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a huge problem\Nbecause they didn't have money.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, thanks to the lawyer Gianni Morandi,\Nwho was the owner of the firm
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where my mom worked,\Nthey went to Zurich for their honeymoon.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then they went to Lugano\Nto gather clients for the lawyer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to put towards this large sum.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I still remember two leather bags\Nwith thousands of stars inside.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were gold stars.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, at this point, they reach Palestine.\NThe State of Israel still didn't exist.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There wasn't any money to protect them.\NTherefore, they had to start from scratch?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, and so, they started all over again\Nfrom January to April 1, 1939.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They arrived in Jaffa on April 6, 1939.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, because by 1922\Nthe British controlled Palestine.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There were Palestinian Arabs.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Jewish Palestinians were organized\Nby the {\i1}Yishuv{\i0}, who were more concerned
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the {\i1}kibbutz{\i0} and wanted\Nto dedicate themselves
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to agriculture, etc.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the harm, the political one,\Nwas directed by the Arab agency.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Arab agency was, well,\NI will give you an example.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those who arrived\Nin Tel Aviv on April 7th,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were in school learning modern Hebrew\Ntwenty days after arriving,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there were various Jews\Nin Tel Aviv from every part of Europe.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, it was necessary\Nto learn this common language.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Therefore, there was some organization,\Nbut there were a lot of problems.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In any case, where I mentally find...\N- Ah, yes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...this small amount of protection.\NHowever, they had to start...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They had to restart.\N- ...from scratch.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On the other hand, however,\Nthere were also a lot of comforts
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that were left behind by the fact\Nof having to abandon...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Yes.\N...Italy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Having to leave Italy was strenuous.\N- Yes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In regard to this,\NI would also read an excerpt
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the letters\Nthat may have been donated to the archive,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,diaries in which Hector specifies\Nwhat he was feeling shortly after the time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at which he abandoned Italy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We will read from this excerpt:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"When I left Italy four months ago,\Nfeeling more disgusted by the burden
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"of having to leave the country\Nthan for the imminent danger,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"many of my colleagues\Nand friends were quick
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"to express to me their discontent\Nabout what was happening.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Through their conversations,\NI felt they knew what sympathy meant
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and they only ended up withdrawing me.\N
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"They were whispered in room conversations\Nsolely because they knew me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and thought highly of me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"For many, being an example against\Nthe persecution of Jews not being born
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"in Italy, could also be considered fair\Nbecause it is understood that they came
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"to the country to make a fortune\Nby going behind other's backs.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"They had some skilled political views.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The fascist government's right\Nto persecute people that it had let into
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"the country was generally recognized."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, so Hector felt betrayed by Italy?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without a doubt.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I was saying prior,\Nalso because my father was from Trieste.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He had gotten from his father, \Nmy grandfather, an irredentist
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and nationalist education.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trieste...\N- Of course.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...had always been divided\Nbetween people from Trieste
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead of irredentists,\Nthose who love Italy, Italian culture,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Italian language,\Nlike my grandfather and Slovenians.