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Eleonora Cussini EIGHT JUDAICA BOOKS from the LIBRARY of the YOUNG REFUGEES of VILLA EMMA the Fondazione Villa Emma. Ragazzi Eleonora Cussini EIGHT JUDAICA BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE YOUNG REFUGEES OF VILLA EMMA The Fondazione Villa Emma. Ragazzi from Germany, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Cro- ebrei salvati in Nonantola, Modena, owns a col- atia, and Bosnia, found shelter in the local Sem- lection of books that originally belonged to the inary and in private homes in Nonantola, with library of the young Jewish refugees of Villa Em- the exception of one of them, the sixteen year ma, in Nonantola.1 The books were left behind old Salomon Papo who had been hospitalized in when the group left the villa following the dra- a sanatorium in the village of Gaiato di Pavul- matic events of September 8th, 1943, when Ger- lo (Modena), because of tubercolosis.2 With the man troops entered Nonantola. Fearing to be ar- help of smugglers contacted by Goffredo Paci- rested and deported to the Fossoli concentration fici, between October th6 and 17th, divided in camp and then to Germany, the adult leaders three groups, they managed to cross the Italian and the seventy-three young refugees, originally border at Ponte Tresa and entered Switzerland, 1 I am grateful to Fausto Ciuffi, Director of the Anni in fuga, Giunti 2006 (Yalde Villa Emma, Tel Fondazione Villa Emma. Ragazzi ebrei salvati, for Aviv 1983); H. VOIGT, Villa Emma. Ragazzi ebrei in his pemission to study and publish the books. I wish fuga. 1940-1945, Milan 2002 (Villa Emma. Jüdische to thank Giuliano Tamani and Tsipora Baran, Uni- Kinder auf der Flucht. 1940-1945, Berlin 2001). Af- versità Ca’ Foscari Venezia for their comments. On ter 1945, Bories returned to Nonantola, with Mar- the recovery of the books and the history of their co Schoky and Ruth Drucker, former members of acquisition and information concerning the whole the Villa Emma group and turned the villa into an collection see www.fondazionevillaemma.org. Ac- achshara and a center for displaced persons and cording to the testimony of Norma Piccinini «In- Holocaust survivors, where other former Villa Em- side the villa there was a very rich library. Among ma youths, on their way to Palestine, stopped for a their leaders I remember Boris [ ... ] He had a lot while. VOIGT, Villa Emma, cit., p. 268. of books written in different languages. When they 2 The first group, forty adolescents from Ger- left, I was entrusted with all of them [i.e. the books] many, Austria, Hungary and Poland, arrived in .... After the war Boris came back and fetched them. Nonantola by train on July 17th, 1942, with Indig [ ... ]» (my translation) N. PICCININI, I giorni di Villa and eight other adults: Georg Bories, Mauricy An- Emma, Modena 1978, pp. 29-30. Boris Jochvedson win, Helene Barkic, Alexander and Erna Licht, alias Georg Bories (Rostov 1900-Meran 1948) a tal- Marco Schoky (Marek Silberschatz), Robert Stein ented Russian pianist, grew up in Tiflis and graduat- and Josefine Weiss. They settled in Villa Emma, a ed in Prague in 1921. He moved to Berlin where he forty-six room country mansion, built in 1898 by studied at the Stern’sche Konservatorium and later Carlo Sacerdoti a Modena landowner, that had been worked at the Opera House and as a private piano rented for them by the Delasem. A second group of teacher. In 1940 he left Germany and in Zagreb he thirty-four youths from Croatia, Bosnia and a girl joined the group led by the young madrik Josef In- from Germany, accompanied by Jakov Maestro and dig (Virovitica, Croatia 1917 - Gat, Israel 1998). He Maurizio Romano arrived in April 1943. Other adult then moved with Indig and the group to the Lesno Jewish refugees lived at the villa: Emilio Freilich, Brdo manor in Slovenia, where they spent about Ruth Kalischer, Armand Moreno and Hersz Naf- one year, then to Nonantola and finally to Switzer- tali Schuldenfrei and the Delasem members Laura land. In Lesno and Nonantola Bories and Indig su- Cavaglione, Umberto Jacchia and Goffredo Pacifici. pervised the education of the young refugees, with There were also six other adults, members of two the help of Helene Barkic. He gave piano and Maths Jewish families from Lybia, who fled to Switzerland lessons, Indig modern Hebrew and History and with the group. Pacifici was instrumental in smug- Barkic taught scientific subjects, see J. INDIG ITHAI, gling the group into Switzerland. He remained in 377 025-Cussini-365-378B - Copia.indd 377 8/21/2018 2:11:17 PM Eleonora Cussini Eight judaica books from the Library of the Young Refugees of Villa Emma where they spent the following two years and tions, in 1920 both Romanian and Hungarian eventually, in 1945, most of them sailed to Pales- editions were issued.6 Also Franz Kafka worked tine.3 The original library possibly counted over on that textbook when he started his self-in- eight hundred books, journals, musical scores, structed study of Hebrew around May 1917, on calendars and almanacs. Among the ninety-four his own copy of the second edition.7 The name extant volumes, mainly novels in German and Sonja Borus is written in pencil on the title page Italian, there are eight Judaica books: two gram- of this volume. Perhaps Sonja, who was origi- mars, three prayer books, a history monograph, nally from Berlin, was the owner of this volume, a journal issue and a memorial volume.4 Some or more likely, the one who studied on it, left of the books had been donated to the refugees notes and worked on some of the exercises.8 In of Villa Emma by the Delasem, the Italian Jew- her diary there are frequent references to her ish rescue organization.5 The core of the library work on Modern Hebrew. For example while in had been probably brought by the refugees to Lesno Brdo she writes: «Sunday, 15.2.1942. In Nonantola from Zagreb and Lesno Brdo. half an hour we have Iwrit (sic) with Jäger. His The two grammars are different editions name is Mundeck» or «Wednesday, 29.4.1942. of the Hebrew grammar by Moses Rath, first On Monday classes started again, regularly. I published in German in Vienna in 1914 and later am really putting a lot of effort in learning». Or, translated in Polish. The first volume from Villa a month later: «Monday, 18.5.42. Now we have Emma is a copy of the 1920 German and Hebrew classes. In a short while we have Iwrit with Josc- edition, the other is the English version pub- hko» [i.e. Josef Indig]. About half a year later in lished in 1921. Rath’s grammar is a well-known Nonantola, she wrote: «Tuesday, 16.2.43. Josc- work: in addition to the German and Polish edi- hko teaches me Iwrit, and he will also explain Italy to help other Jews and on November 7th, 1944 www.nli.org.il. was arrested at Ponte Tresa, sent to Fossoli and de- 7 I. BRUCE, Kafka and Cultural Zionism. Dates ported to Auschwitz on August 1st, 1944, where he in Palestine, Madison 2007, p. 165, with previous died with his brother Aldo. Salomon Papo was ar- bibliography. rested and deported to Auschwitz from Fossoli on 8 Sonja Borus (later, Shoshana Harari), was April 5th, 1944. There he was killed, upon arrival. born in 1927 and left Berlin on January 29th 1941 VOIGT, Villa Emma, cit., p. 228. with fourteen other girls. The group had been or- 3 Indig and the first group of forty-six young ref- ganized by Recha Freier (née Schweitzer, 1892- ugees sailed from Barcelona on the Plus Ultra on 1984), who in 1932 founded the Jugend Aliyah and May 29th, 1945. The second group followed on Au- the Berlin-based organization Jüdische Jugendhilfe gust 21st and a third group sailed from Marseille on and managed to rescue about five thousand Jewish August 30th. Others decided to go back to Yugoslavia children and adolescents from Germany and Poland and two joined relatives in the United States, VOIGT, to Palestine, via Yugoslavia. Sonja and her friends Villa Emma, cit., p. 264-265. were guided by a slightly older girl, Tilla Nagler and 4 For images and descriptions of a wide choice of managed to illegally enter in Yugoslavia. After a pe- the extant volumes see www.fondazionevillaemma.org. riod of internment in Krško, they were entrusted to 5 The Delasem organization (Delegazione per the care of the young madrik Josef Indig by Freier, l’Assistenza agli Emigrati Ebrei) was created by who then left to Palestine with other children and the Union of the Italian Jewish Communities on De- hoped the girls would have joined her right after. cember 1st, 1939. It was based in Genoa and was di- After a year spent in Lesno Brdo, in Slovenia, Sonja rected by Lelio Vittorio Valobra. When Valobra left with Indig and the group moved to Nonantola. After to Switzerland in November 1943 Massimo Teglio, September 8th 1943 Sonja went in hiding with the from Genoa, became the new director. For safety Piccinini family in Nonantola and in October 1943 reasons, the Delasem office and storehouse were re- the group fled to Switzerland, where they remained located at Villa Emma, INDIG, Anni in fuga, cit., 215. until 1945 and then left to Palestine. Sonja settled 6 The Hungarian edition was edited by Rath; the in Galilee in kibbutz Eilon. In 1947 she moved to Romanian by Avram Rappaport. Various copies of Ruhama (Negev) probably following Recha Freier. this work are today in the National Library of Israel, Sonja spent her life in Ruhama, apart from a brief 378 379 025-Cussini-365-378B - Copia.indd 378 8/21/2018 2:11:17 PM Eleonora Cussini Eight judaica books from the Library of the Young Refugees of Villa Emma me a lot about Psychology.
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