What's happened
Italian lawmakers vote to fund long-delayed Holocaust Museum in Rome
Why it matters
The funding of the Holocaust Museum in Rome is significant in light of the recent deadly attacks on Jews and the historical significance of Italy's role in the Holocaust.
What the papers say
AP News emphasizes the urgency of the undertaking following the killing of Israeli civilians by Hamas fighters. The Independent highlights the revival of the project by far-right leader Giorgia Meloni and the importance of Italy's role in the Holocaust. NY Post focuses on the story of Emanuele Di Porto, who escaped Nazi deportation as a 12-year-old boy.
How we got here
The project to build a Holocaust Museum in Rome has been long-delayed due to funding, location, and reluctance to highlight Italy's fascist government's role in the Holocaust.
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Jews or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation originating from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah.
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The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the World War II genocide of the European Jews. Between 1941 and 1945, across German-occupied Europe, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews, around two-thirds of Europe
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Rome is the capital city and a special comune of Italy as well as the capital of the Lazio region. The city has been a major human settlement for over two millennia. With 2,860,009 residents in 1,285 kmĀ², it is also the country's most populated comune.
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Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a sovereign country consisting of a peninsula delimited by the Alps and surrounded by several islands. Italy is located in south-central Europe, and is considered part of western Europe.