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Book Review of My Name Is Vittoria (A WW2 Historical Novel, Based on a True Story of a Jewish Holocaust Survivor (World War II Brave Women))

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Vittoria is young Italian, Jewish woman whom marries into a very rich Italian Jewish family prior to World War 2. She and her husband have 3 boys within 7 years. They believe that as Italian Jews they will be not be persecuted as the other European Jews.Luckily even though it comes it comes later in the war and their whole family escapes to Switzerland.This is a true story. Vittoria and her husband keep ties to Italy but immigrate as capitalist business people to the new state of Israel. Vittoria learns how painful war is.