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Piero Terracina, Rome Jew who survived Nazi death camp, dies

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Piero Terracina, Rome Jew who survived Nazi death camp, diesPiero Terracina, described as the last survivor among the Roman Jews who were deported from the Italian capital to Nazi death camps during World War II, has died at 91. Terracina died on Sunday, Rome’s Jewish Community said. As a 15-year-old, he escaped the roundup by German occupying troops of Rome’s Jews in 1943 and went into hiding with his family.

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