Rome got rid of streets in honor of the Nazis
The authorities of Rome renamed the streets and square, which bore the names of scientists Arturo Donaggio and Edoardo Zavattari, who stained themselves by collaborating with the fascists, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
This was reported by ANSA.
The mayor of Rome, Virginia Raggi, announced her intention to carry out a “toponymic cleansing” and rename the streets and square of the capital at the end of last year. As ANSA points out, in 1938, academics Donaggio and Zavattari were among those scientists who supported the racial laws of dictator Benito Mussolini.
Now the streets are named after the doctor Mario Carrara and the zoologist Enrica Calabresi, and the square, previously also named after Donaggio, is named after the physicist Nella Mortara. They all opposed anti-Semitic laws.
Carrara is considered one of the founding fathers of Italian forensic medicine. He went down in history as one of the few university professors who refused to swear allegiance to the fascist regime, the newspaper Il Messaggero emphasizes. Mortara taught experimental physics at Sapienza University and was the only woman to work at the Enrico Fermi Institute in Rome. Because of her Jewish roots, she was fired from the university and also expelled from all scientific organizations of which she was a member.
Enrica Calabresi, of Jewish origin, taught agricultural entomology. In January 1944, she was arrested at home in Florence. Calabresi knew she was going to be sent to the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Auschwitz and took poison to avoid that fate.
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