2.5. Various decrees with sport
The coach of Hungarian origin Árpád Weisz (1896-1944) won one League championship with the Ambrosiana team of Milan (1929-1930) and two with the Bologna team (1935-1937). In October 1938 he was brutally dismissed and, as a Jewish foreigner, forced to leave the country...
2.5. Various decrees with sport
Settimio Terracina during a workout. On his boxer’s shorts is embroidered the star of David. On July of the same year, he wears the same boxer’s shorts for the preliminaries of the European Championships in Ferrara, but on this occasion, in the back of the shorts...
2.5. Various decrees with sport
In the Thirties the boxer Settimio Terracina (1917-1985) manages to win the regional title and earns the convocation for pre-Olympic training. In January 1938 he is called up, but after a few months, with the promulgation of anti-Jewish laws, Settimio is dismissed by...
2.5. Various decrees with sport
Rome, late Thirties. Pacifico Di Consiglio (1921-2006), called “Moretto”, trains together with his friend Angelo Di Porto (born in 1923) on the terrace of their habitation in Sant’Angelo in Pescheria, n. 28. They were expelled from the gym they normally attended....
2.5. Various decrees with sport
Aldo Gay, Thirties. Gai Family Collection, Roma
2.5. Various decrees with sport
Rome, October 1938. The sports company C. Colombo – as others – prohibits the entry in his gym to Jewish athletes. The Painter Aldo Gay (1914-2004) draws himself at the moment in which he is communicated this prohibition. Gai Family Collection, Roma
