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Giuseppina De Muro

1903 – 1965

Italian nun recognized as 'Righteous Among the Nations' by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem

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Lived 1903 – 1965 (aged 61). Giuseppina De Muro was an Italian nun.

Giuseppina De Muro (or Demuro) (1903–1965) was an Italian Roman Catholic nun who saved over 500 people from concentration camps during the German occupation of Italy.

She was born Rosina De Muro in 1903 in Lanusei, Sardinia. Sister De Muro was a member of the religious congregation Figlie della Carità di San Vincenzo De' Paoli (Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul). She spent most of her life in Turin, Italy, serving from 1925 until her death.

She is credited with saving the lives of over 500 people by preventing their deportation from Le Nuove prison to Nazi concentration camps. Among those she saved was Italian essayist Massimo Foa, who was nine months old when she smuggled him out of the prison in a load of dirty sheets. He was taken in by Clotilde Roda Boggia ("mamma Tilde") in Turin, who raised him as a son. One way sister De Muro saved people was by inventing a disease and then having them transferred to a local hospital. To support her claim, Father Ruggero Cipolla, OFM (1911-2006), the prison chaplain, wrote to him as well, saying that everything she related was true.

Yad Vashem, Israel's official Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, named her Righteous Among the Nations. The Jewish Community of Turin presented the award at Le Nuove prison, which is now a museum, on December 3, 2024.

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Righteous Among the Nations
Also known as
Giuseppina Demuro, Rosina De Muro (birth name), Rosina Demuro

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Who was Giuseppina De Muro?

Italian nun recognized as 'Righteous Among the Nations' by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem

When was Giuseppina De Muro born?

Giuseppina De Muro was born on 2 November 1903.

When did Giuseppina De Muro die?

Giuseppina De Muro died on 18 October 1965.

What was Giuseppina De Muro's occupation?

Giuseppina De Muro was a nun.

What nationality was Giuseppina De Muro?

Giuseppina De Muro was Italian.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Giuseppina De Muro

· Wikidata: Q110030966

· DBpedia: Giuseppina De Muro

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