Facsimile of a 70th anniversary Stolperstein for a Jewish Italian teenager

Amelia Levi was born on May 30, 1927, to Jewish parents, Marco and Pia Levi, in Saluzzo, Italy. Yielding to pressure from their ally, Nazi Germany, the Italian government passed anti-Jewish legislation in 1938. However, Italian military authorities generally refused to participate in deportations or other actions directed toward the mass murder of Jews. After the Axis alliance surrender in North Africa on May 13, 1943, followed by the Allied landings in Sicily on July 10, Mussolini was deposed. On September 8, Italy surrendered to the Allies and Germany occupied nortern and central Italy. The SS and other German authorities began to round-up Jews and set up transit camps. On January 26, 1944, Amelia was arrested by the Germans and imprisoned in Borgo San Dalmazzo transit camp near the French border. She was deported on convoy 8 to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German occupied Poland where she was killed in September 1944. No restrictions on access Facsimile of a plaque created in 2012 to honor the memory of Amelia Levi, age 17, who was deported from Saluzzo, Italy, to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German occupied Poland and murdered. The plaque was created by students of the Art Institute G.Solei-Bertoni, in Saluzzo, as a Stolperstein [stumbling block] for possible placement at the site of the home where Amelia had lived. Stolpersteine were originated by Gunter Demnig as an ongoing art project to memorialize victims of National Socialism in front of their last place of residence. On January 26, 1944, Amelia was arrested by the Germans and imprisoned in Borgo San Dalmazzo transit camp near the French border. She was deported on convoy 8 to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German occupied Poland where she was killed in September 1944. Amelia was the youngest of twenty-one Jewish residents of Saluzzo who were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.