The province of Grosseto in Southern Tuscany shows two extremes in the treatment of Italian and foreign Jews during the Holocaust.
In the west, near the provincial capital of Grosseto, almost a hundred Italian and foreign Jews were imprisoned in 1943-1944 i.
None of those in hiding were arrested and all survived the Fascist hunt for Jews.
To the east of the province, the Jews of Pitigliano, a four hundred-year-old community, were hidden for almost a year by sympathetic farmers in barns and caves.
The province of Grosseto in Southern Tuscany shows two extremes in the treatment of Italian and foreign Jews during the Holocaust