Assisi in World War II: Convents Shelter the Jewish Refugees
In 1943- 1944 when 300 Jewish refugees were hidden in German-occupied Assisi, many a convent became a place of safe haven. One was the Monastero di San Quirico. Traveling all the way to Umbria from the northern Italy town of Fiume (part of Croatia as of 1947), Lea Baruch and her sisters Mira and Hella…