The Italian Institutions and the Repatriation of Racial Ex-deportees: Epistolary Exchanges between Pietro Quaroni and Piero Terracina

Journal title MONDO CONTEMPORANEO
Author/s Elisa Guida
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2015/1
Language Italian Pages 27 P. 75-101 File size 167 KB
DOI 10.3280/MON2015-001002
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In the institutional vacuum that characterised the management of the repatriations in Italy after World War II, almost no attention was paid to racial exdeportees. The only exceptions seem to be the work carried out by some diplomatic officials abroad: among them, the Italian Ambassador in Moscow Pietro Quaroni, who strove to ease and accelerate the repatriation of the racial ex-deportee Piero Terracina. The paper is based on the recovery of the correspondence between Quaroni and Terracina and on various interviews given to the author by the exdeportee. Through a comparison between the Quaroni-Terracina papers and the interviews, the article reconstructs the real dimension of the journey back home, with special attention to chronological and geographical references, as well as the relationship between the saved and the liberators. The essay, moreover, takes into consideration the symbolic dimension of the repatriation, which represented neither the end of the offence nor, even less, a prompt return to life and normality.

Keywords: Shoah, repatriation, diplomacy, identity reconstruction, absence, concentration camp system

Elisa Guida, Le istituzioni italiane e il rimpatrio degli ex deportati razziali: il dialogo epistolare fra pietro quaroni e piero terracina in "MONDO CONTEMPORANEO" 1/2015, pp 75-101, DOI: 10.3280/MON2015-001002