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Born in 1895, Father Benoît Marie was a French Capuchin monk who rescued Jews in France and Italy during the war. Before the war, he was a professor in a seminary in Marseilles, and during the Vichy regime helped Jews to escape from France. After the German occupation of southern France in 1942, he moved his rescue activities to Italian-occupied Nice. After the Italian armistice of September 1943, he was appointed the head of the Delasem office in Rome when its director, Settimio Sorani, was arrested. Using the name Maria Benedetto, he saved Jewish refugees in German-occupied Rome from deportations by finding them hiding places and identity cards. In 1966 Father Benoît Marie was awarded the title Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem (en-US)

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Trevelyn, Raleigh. Rome '44: The Battle for the Eternal City. NYC: Viking Press. 1987. pp. 26, 28, 112, 118, 261

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• persone famose per ragioni positive o negative