March 1939. The Directorate General for demography and race reviews the case of Sister Maria Consolata of ‘Jewish race’. The nun is a teacher at the Kindergarten of the ‘Filippi’ Institute in Vercelli and has been suspended from teaching. Born with the name of Cesira Calabresi (1887-1977), after 30 years of service at that Institute she was successively transferred to the orphanage of the same city as an ‘anonymous’ assistant. She would remain there for 36 years.
Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Roma