Uncovering Italy's hidden Holocaust

AUTHOR Georgia Hunter was 15 when she discovered she came from a family of Holocaust survivors.

- Georgia Hunter

From the family war stories, she crafted We were the lucky Ones, her first book. But wartime Europe had its grip on her. As she says in her acknowledgments in One Good Thing her second novel 'I was drawn to Italy as a setting for many reasons. Although Italy’s Jewish community is one of the oldest in Europe, Its Holocaust history is relatively unknown".In writing One Good Thing she exposes Italy’s Holocaust past through the experiences of Lili Passigli, a student at the University of Fererra. And it is not pretty. For Lily, fresh from Bologna, student life is different, carefree and her friendship with the vivacious Esti an anchor to relish.

Until Mussolini’s Racial Laws deem her of ‘inferior’ Jewish descent.