The Shoah (1939–1945)
Arrest of the Jews of Dubrovnik after Italian capitulation
septembre 1943·Dubrovnik
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One of the oldest communities of the Adriatic, protected until then by the Italian occupier, is arrested upon the arrival of German troops on the coast.
Dubrovnik, the ancient Ragusa, was home to one of the oldest Jewish communities on the Adriatic, born of the settlement of Sephardic families in the sixteenth century and housed in an alleyway that still bears its name. Placed within the Italian occupation zone, it escaped the deportations ordered by the Ustasha regime and took in refugees from the interior, whom the Italian army eventually interned on a coastal island rather than surrender them. Italy's capitulation brought this protection to an end: German troops took the city, and the Jews of Dubrovnik, along with those who had sought refuge there, were arrested and deported to the East.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Croatie
Jaša Romano, *Jevreji Jugoslavije* ; Menachem Shelah, *Un debito verso i deportati* ; Zvi Loker (dir.), *Pinkas Hakehillot Yugoslavia*, Yad Vashem.