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Today in History: Gestapo raids Roman Ghetto, deporting 1,259 to Auschwitz

By Drooid · Oct 16, 2026, 10:35 AM UTC · How we work

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On 16 October 1943 the Gestapo raided Rome’s historic Jewish ghetto, arresting 1,259 residents—363 men, 689 women, 207 children. Of them, 1,023 Jews were deported to Auschwitz, where only fifteen men and one woman survived. The operation exemplifies the Holocaust’s systematic extermination of European Jewry.

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On 16 October 1943 the Gestapo raided Rome’s historic Jewish ghetto, arresting 1,259 residents—363 men, 689 women, 207 children. Of them, 1,023 Jews were deported to Auschwitz, where only fifteen men and one woman survived. The operation exemplifies the Holocaust’s systematic extermination of European Jewry.