Item ID	17892
Title	Infant at the first "Brit" ceremony in the Cinecittà DP camp since the war ended.
Reference Code	NY_06985
Description	This baby's birth in 1945 was the first one among the 250 non-Italian Jews in Italy. Refugees from Austria, Poland, Germany, and Czechoslovakia had started to arrive in camps there. The brit (circumcision ceremony) took place at Cinecittà, in Rome, the center for DP camps in Italy. A mohel presided while Reuben B. Resnik, JDC’s Country Director at the time, held the baby. The former (and future) Italian movie studio, had been used by the Germans during WW2 to house prisoners of war, and then as the center for DP Camps in Italy.
City / Town	Rome	similar items
Country	Italy	similar items
Dates	1945
Decade	1940	similar items
Selected Search Code	Terra	similar items
Size	5 x 7
Format	Print

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