INES PACIFICI

LOCATION:  Via  Giardini di Vittorio Veneto 14

INSTALLATION DATE: 28.01.2022

BORN ON: 30.04.1889

BIRTHPLACE: Florence

ARRESTED IN SANREMO ON: 26.11.1943

DEPORTED ON:  06.12.1943 

ARRIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ ON: 11.12.1943

DATE OF DEATH: 11.12.1943

LODOVICO ORVIETO

LOCATION: Via Giardini di Vittorio Veneto 14

INSTALLATION DATE: 28.01.2022

BORN ON: 15.09.1882

BIRTHPLACE: Rome

ARRESTED IN SANREMO ON: 26.11.1943

DEPORTED ON: 06.12.1943 

ARRIVAL IN AUSCHWITZ ON: 11.12.1943

DATE OF DEATH: 11.12.1943

Ines Pacifici and Lodovico Orvieto were the names of two Jewish victims whose lives used to be carefree until the enforcement of the Fascist racial laws.

The Orvieto-Pacifici family was related to the famous violinist Aldo Ferraresi. He was a relative of Riccardo Pacifici, an Italian rabbi.

Ines was born on April 30, 1889, in Florence to a Jewish family. She spent the early part of her life with her parents Judith Da Fano, Cesare Pacifici and her sister Giulia.

Lodovico was born in Rome on September 15, 1882. Initially, he used to live with his parents Sabatino Orvieto and Anna Calò and his siblings Attilio, Raffaello, Romolo and Luisa.

Ines and Lodovico fell in love and married on March 9, 1916. They had two sons, Renzo and Cesare.

Ines used to work as a teacher, however, unclearly, she became a housewife from one day to the other.

Lodovico was an intellectual and a writer. Together with his colleague, he translated the Divine Comedy in German. He played the zither, too. Despite his talent, he worked as a peddler at the market of Sanremo.

The couple lived in several places: initially in Florence, then for some time in Turin, Genoa, and finally Sanremo. It was here where their lives turned for the worse. Ines and Lodovico were both arrested and then imprisoned in Genoa. As time went by, so did their fate. Little they could expect as they were locked up behind four walls.

Once sent to the collection camps in Milan, the two boarded convoy n°5 which was heading to the Auschwhiz extermination camp. Five days later, on December 11, 1943, the train reached its final destination. The spouses died on the same day of their arrival.