Teatro Marcello and Portico d'Ottavia
The Teatro Marcello is named after Emporer Augustus' nephew, Marcus Marcellus,
who died 5 years before it was completed. In its time, the teatro could hold
11,000 people. As with many other architectures in Rome, it has gone through
many different uses in its history. Today, you can see the windows in the top section
which are apartments.
I showed you this picture back on page 15,
when I talked of us being lost, after leaving Palatine Hill, and trying to find the Coliseum.
Beside the Teatro Marcello, is the Portico d'Ottavia. This is in the
Jewish Ghetto of Rome. In 1943, the German soldiers used this area as a
collection point for Jewish people to send them to the concentration camps,
mainly Auschwitz. I have found differing numbers on how many Jewish people
were gathered here for deportation to the camps, but the numbers seem to
be slightly more than 1,000. It has also been said that if the Jewish brought
a certain amount of gold, they would be spared. They weren't. Of all those
who were sent to the concentration camps, supposedly only 16 survived.
The Synagogue on Via Catalana
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