Roberto Civita (M / Italy, 1936-2013), Holocaust survivor
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Roberto Civita (M / Italy, 1936-2013), Holocaust survivor
- KEYWORDS : <Italy> <Refugees> <United States> -- <Brazil>
Biography
Roberto Civita was born August 9, 1936 in Milan, Italy, to an Italian-Jewish family. at the age of two with his family to New York in 1938 to escape effects of the Race Laws. They moved again to Brazil in 1949, where his father Victor Civita founded Editora Abril, a publishing house.
After college and graduate school in the United States, the younger Civita entered the family business in the 1960s. He helped its expansion and development as Grupo Abril, becoming one of the largest publishing companies in Brazil.