La Barricata delle Quattro Giornate di Napoli 1943-2023

The contribution focuses on the part played by the Jews of Naples in freeing the city from Nazi-fascist barbarity. A hundred hours, remembered by history as the Four Days of Naples, during which many citizens of the Jewish faith fought while exposed to a double danger: as insurgents and as targets of the Gestapo deportation order of 23 September. Among them were Alberto and Leone Defez, Camaleonte and Osvaldo Tesoro, Bettino Voghera, Giorgio Formiggini and Ferruccio Ara (who in 1944 would become a councillor in the first post-fascist city government). The author adds that the moral redemption of the Four Days – after the guilt of fascism and the racial laws – cannot end in monuments, but calls for a living, daily commitment to passing on historical truth, exactly as Antonio Amoretti bore witness until the end of his life.