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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Frances d'Emilio

Rome buses recount story of a Jewish boy who avoided Nazi deportation by riding tram. He's now 92

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Residents and visitors in Italy's capital can ride a city bus this month that recounts how a 12-year-old boy escaped Nazi deportation from Rome's Jewish neighborhood 80 years ago thanks to sympathetic tram drivers.

The traveling exhibit is a highlight of events commemorating the 80th anniversary of when German soldiers rounded up some 1,200 members of the city's tiny Jewish community during the Nazi occupation in the latter years of World War II.

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