The SS gave the Roman Jewish community 36 hours to make payments to the German occupiers. Chief Rabbi Israel Zolli appealed to the Vatican regarding the monetary shortfalls, and which the Vatican did. As the payments were to be i gold, it is thought that religious vessels were melted to make the payment.
Isreal Zolli.
Rabbi Zolli would survive the war, but with a dramatic turn of events. On Yom Kippur in 1944 he experienced a vision of Jesus while celebrating a religious service and felt himself to have experienced the words "You are here for the last time". On February 13, 1945, he, his second wife (his first had died) and his daughters were received into Catholicism. He died on March 2, 1956 after having received Communion. He was ill at the time, but had told a nun at the hospital at which he was located the date and hour of his death before it arrived.
The Free French occupied Ghisonaccia on Corsica.
The multinational (not including Americans) Z Special Unit raided Japanese shipping at Singapore. The Japanese, in New Guinea, launched an unsuccessful counterattack on the Australians at Finschafen.
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