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Selvino DP camp / Selvino Children / Sciesopoli (see Holocaust Children Studies)

• Displaced Children -> Displaced Children, Italy

Overview

• REBIRTH, a video on the Children of Selvino by the secondary school in Chiavenna (Sondrio)

The Selvino children were a group of approximately 810 Jewish children orphaned by the Holocaust, rescued after World War II from ghettos and concentration camps and housed in a former Fascist children's home called Sciesopoli in the Alpine town of Selvino, Italy. The facility had been constructed in the 1930s (the colony was inaugurated on June 11, 1933, built by the architect of sports facilities Paolo Vietti Violi) as a "sports palace" or gymnasium and training centre for athletes). There, the children were allowed to recover physically, mentally, and spiritually from their ordeal, while being instructed both in the general education they had missed during their imprisonment, as well as in their heritage of Judaism and Judaic culture, in preparation for their later relocation to the still British-ruled Mandatory Palestine as part of the Bricha illegal immigration programme. The house was run by members of a Palestinian Jewish unit of the British Army stationed in Northern Italy under Moshe Zeiri, along with the generous help of many Italian citizens. From early 1947 to May 1948, when the State of Israel was declared, Amalia (Mania) Schoeps was director of Sciesopoli.

Book : The Story of the Selvino Children

• Aharon Megged, The Story of the Selvino Children: Journey to the Promised Land (2002)

"Fundamentally a documentary, Selvino's Children describes the story of the rehabilitation of 800 Jewish children, Holocaust survivors, in the first few years after the Second Word War in a small town near Milano-Selvino. There, Jewish-Palestinian soldiers, with the help of committed and well-wishing Italians, built an educational establishment that rehabilitated these children and prepared them for life in Israel. The book gives a very interesting account of the children's elaborate journey before, during and after Selvino."--Publisher description.

List of names

Judith Masad (M / Czechia, 1938), Holocaust survivor <Bergen-Belsen KZ or DP?> Born Nov 3, 1938 in Kezmarok (Czechoslovakia) Mukacevo (Czechoslovakia <Hidden Children?>

Shlomo Weisbrod, Noga Donat, Jeshayahu Flamholz, Isak Rechtman, Yaakov Meriash, Avraham Hassman, Helenka Saban, Lea Shnee, Miriam Weinstock, Yaffa Yanover, Edzia Winkler, Halina Liebeskind, Dora Rot, Yaakov Kopelman, Zvi Kaner, Zipora (Baranek) Friedman, Serka Fiederer.

Esther Werber, Yehoshua Dembinski, Alex Groben, Menahem Krieger, Yosef Melamed, Rachel Melamed, Moshe Zeiri, Dora Rot, Hela Schreier, Bronka Lipshitz, Zipora Kutner, Tova Yakubovitz, Serka Fiederer.