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Italian Priest To Be Immortalized in Jerusalem
From Italy-News.com
Enzo Boni Baldoni, an Italian priest known for having put himself at risk to save many Jewish families during the holocaust, will be given a plaque on the Wall of Jerusalem that honors the “Righteous Among Nations.
” Mr. Baldoni, who died in 1972, was awarded the distinction posthumously by the Yad Vashem Institute for the Memory of Martyrs and Heroes of the Holocaust.
Mr. Baldoni, born in 1906 in Cavriago, was a priest in Quara di Toano when he hid and protected, with the help of his parishioners, dozens of Jewish families from the Nazis.
A certificate will be given to his family next Sunday during an official ceremony in Cavriago sponsored in part by the Israeli embassy in Italy. David Cassuto of the University of Ariel will be the presenter.

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