Presidente Della Comunità
(The President of the Community)

"The Jewish community numbered 535, in 1931. During the Holocaust, 12 Jews were sent to extermination camps. Another eight Jews were deported from Pisa. On August 1, 1944, the Nazis murdered Giuseppe Pardo Roques, who was a deputy major of Pisa, a prestigious Jewish philanthropist and president of the community. Eleven others seeking haven in Roque's house were murdered, as well as, including six Jews." from The Virtual Jewish History Tour of Pisa by Rebecca Weiner.

The plaque is written in Italian and for those who read Italian, this is verbatim:

Voi

Che vi accingete a sostare in preghiera
Sui sepolcri di persone care
Soffermatevi in raccoglimento
Presso questa pietra
Simbolica avellow per milioni di
Morti senza sepoltura

Tutti

Vittime innocenti della disumana
Perscuzione antiebraica

Ricordate
Coloro che gia appartennero alla
Comunita ebraica di pisa
Strappati dalle loro case – deportati – senza ritorno
Nei campi di concentramento
Sterminati nei forni crematori e nelle camere a gas
O qui trucidati a tradimento

Per la pace dei morti
Non dimenticate
La barbarie perpetrata e perche mai piu si repeta
L'offesa all dignita dell'uomo
Pregate


English translation:

VOI (You plural)

As you prepare to pause in prayer
on the tombs (sepulchres) of dear ones (loved ones)
take a brief time to concentrate (meditate since the term is used when talking about a spiritual action such as
prayer)
by this stone
symbolic of the millions
of dead without a burial.

ALL innocent victims of inhumane
antisemitic persecution
Remember
those who already belonged
to the Jewish community of Pisa
ripped from their homes - deported - without return
to concentration camps
Exterminated in the crematoriums and gas chambers
or slayed here for betrayal

FOR THE PEACE OF THE DEAD
Do Not Forget
the barbaric acts perpetrated and that it will never be repeated
An Offense (a Violation) to the dignity of man (humankind)
Pray

(or Do Not Forget
the barbaric acts perpetrated
PRAY that an offense to the dignity of man does not repeat itself.)

(Then follow names of the people:)

Rabbi Head Prof. Dr. Augusto Hasdà
Bettina Segre Hasdà
Guido Orvieto
Angela Caivano Orvieto
Angelo Samaia
Lia Millul
Liana Coen Pirani Passigli
Ernesto Levi


President of the Community
Giuseppe Pardo Roques
Dr. Dario Gallichi
Teofilo Gallichi
Cesare Gallichi
Ida de Cori Gallichi
Gabriella de Cori
Vera de Cori
Cesira Levi

Valentina Della Seta di Nola
Elda di Nola Roccas
Renzo Roccas
Mario Roccas
1938-1945

Translation: J.A. (46808935)