At a small railway station in Germany, a group of former military internees waited in August 1945 for a train to take them home. One evening a convoy stopped and a soldier asked if there was anyone who spoke Italian and pointed at him a woman.
At the sight of the military he appeared ageless, he could be 18 to 70 years old. A petty officer offered her chocolate but a nurse stopped him, demanding that they let her rest. “It doesn’t matter — said the woman — let me speak Italian. Maybe it’s the last time!”. She recounted that her name was Marisa, she had been captured in Venice in November 1944, following a delination by Italians. The military asked her a question but she interrupted him: “Why are you asking me about you? I’m a little girl, I’m 14!”.
The soldier asked nearby houses if they had flowers because he wanted to give them to Marisa, but the inhabitants refused, saying, “Don’t give flowers to the Jews!”
Bruno Maida, La Shoah dei bambini. La persecuzione dell’infanzia ebraica in Italia 1938-1945, Einaudi, Torino, 2013, p. 288.
Jesurum, Arrigo Giuseppe (1886 – 1944?)
Jesurum, Jole (1926 – 1945) Jesurum, Marisa (1929 – 1945)
