wxgsi Last month, my buddies Erica as well as Darius held one more Instagram, “Meet The Romans” meetup. We started extremely early (to beat the heat) in Ostiense.
A few weeks before I was out jogging toward the Basilica of Saint Paul beyond The Walls, when I discovered a extremely striking bridge.
I discovered out at the Meetup that this bridge only opened a few months ago. building by Rome’s Solidus, S.r.l. began in 2010.
It was named after Settimia Spizzichino.
On October 16th, 1943, the Nazis walked into Settimia’s house on through delle Reginella. She was 22.
Settimia was very first sent to Auschwitz with her mother, two sisters, as well as a brother. They died in the gas chambers while Settimia was subjected to Dr. Mengele’s “experiments.” later she was transferred to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. numerous of the prisoners died during the long walk as well as Settimia almost starved to death.
Finally, when she was 24, Settimia was liberated from the camp by British soldiers. She returned to Rome, where she discovered her dad as well as two sisters who had survived the death camps. She weighed less than 70lbs.
She spent the rest of her life educating young people about the Holocaust. She died in 2000 at 79.
I believed there was something evocative about this bridge even before I understood the name. The lines are so simple, clear, as well as yet majestic.
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