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People from Here

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Welcome to People from Here.

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What we want to tell you today[br]is the story of two young people,

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of two young people[br]with high hopes.

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There is Adelina,[br]a brilliant lawyer who works

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at a prestigious legal firm in Milan.

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Then there is Hector,[br]an industrial chemist.

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The future can only smile[br]at Adelina and Hector.

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Actually,[br]their future will be more turbulent

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than they could have ever imagined.

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As a matter of fact,[br]in 1938 Hector and Adelina are Jewish.

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On September 18th,[br]in the town of Trieste,

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Benito Mussolini announced Racial Laws[br]for the first time,

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for the defense of the race.

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The world of those two young people[br]suddenly collapses under their feet.

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We will tell this story[br]of Hector and Adelina

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about the eve of the day by memory.

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We will tell it with the son[br]of Hector and Adelina, Daniele Finzi,

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who in 2011, decided to donate[br]his parents letters and documents

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to The Archives of Pieve Santo Stefano.

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Shortly we will also discuss[br]why this choice was made.

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I would like to start precisely[br]with September 1938,

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with Mussolini's announcement[br]of the laws for the defense of the race.

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Hector and Adelina immediately started[br]to understand that there was no future

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for them in that country.[br]To leave their country

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was a difficult decision,[br]but one that will save their lives.

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Yes, my father Hector Finzi[br]had very deep historical knowledge.

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Also because he knew German very well.

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He had two aunts, aunt Genie[br]and aunt Lazagudita Gentiluomo,

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who lived in Vienna.

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He had followed all[br]the Nazi antisemitism up to March 1938.

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So when the race manifesto[br]was published in July 1938,

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he couldn't expect it.

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He knew what our limits were[br]and he also hoped

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that Italy was perhaps[br]a little bit different than Germany.

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And my father, more than my mother,[br]made quick and immediate decisions.

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He was also very intuitive.[br]He had known my mom

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only a few month in 1938.[br]It was love at first sight

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and precisely because of[br]the race manifesto, the Racial Laws,

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they decided to get married.[br]They were married in Milan

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on December 1, 1938.

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In 1938. We arrive in 1939.[br]- Yes.

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A manifest date for many.[br]- Yes.

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Very unjust, but there is a turning point.[br]- There is a turning point.

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Hector and Adelina decide to leave.[br]Rather how do they depart?

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Because, in a way,[br]they leave inquired.

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Yes and no.[br]So the problem is immediate

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and that of money[br]because of English with the white book,

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maybe in February or March of 1939.[br]They set up a number of 75,000 Jews

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that could go to Palestine[br]in five years.

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But to enter, every person needed[br]to have 1,000 stars.

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Like we had said, they had chosen.[br]The goal was Palestine.

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The choice was not a coincidence[br]because my father also thought

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of Latin America.[br]But the idea of going

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to Palestine was because it was close.[br]He also hoped his parents could join him.