Sister Giuseppina Demuro 'Righteous Among the Nations'

(ANSA) - ROME, DEC 3 - Sister Giuseppina Demuro will be recognized as 'Righteous Among the Nations' by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, on Tuesday after risking her life to save Massimo Foa and the spouses Mario Zargani and Eugenia Tedeschi from deportation during the Second World War, Jewish information newspaper Shalom reported.
    The title, obtained thanks to the interest of the Jewish Community of Turin, will be awarded to the museum of the Le Nuove prison in Turin, the place where the nun dedicated herself to serving prisoners from 1925 to 1965.
    Essayist and entrepreneur Massimo Foa, who died 10 years ago, was just nine months old when, thanks to Sister Giuseppina, he was smuggled out among the dirty sheets of the prison and entrusted to Tilde Roda Boggia, who raised him like a son.
    His parents Guido Foa and Elena Recanati and his paternal grandfather Donato were also arrested in Canischio by the soldiers of the X Mas elite frogmen and Fascist army unit, taken to the Le Nuove prison and then deported.
    His father was probably killed during the Death March, while his mother miraculously survived the horror of the extermination camps of Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen.
    To save Zargani and Tedeschi, captured in the Biella area and taken to prison, Sister Giuseppina invented an illness in order to have them transferred to the hospital and then escape.
    Mario Zargani, violinist of the Teatro Regio in Turin and of Eiar, the predecessor of state broadcaster Rai, was expelled from the orchestra in 1938 because of the racial laws.
    His son Aldo and his brother Roberto found salvation by hiding in a Salesian convent. (ANSA).