On March 25, 2010, Author Elizabeth Bettina and Holocaust survivor Ursula Korn-Selig gave a presentation to student members of Bradford High School’s Italian Club in Kenosha. They described to the students about the little-known story of how thousands of Jews were saved throughout the Italian countryside during World War II when ordinary Italians risked their lives to keep Jews safe from the Nazis and certain death. Bettina, a New York-based marketing executive, spent her childhood summers visiting her family in the Italian village of Campagna. Her book, It Happened in Italy, tells this amazing story of courage and determination. Ursula Korn-Selig, now age 84, said she owes her survival to a Roman Catholic priest, Beniamino Schivo, who hid her family in the Italian countryside. The women were invited to speak to the Bradford Italian Club by club adviser, Ralph Annina.
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