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09 December 201910.54 Piero Terracina's funeral is held today at 1.30pm at the Portico d'Ottavia, in the Jewish quarter, then at 2.30pm the funeral ceremony for the usraelitico department of the Verano cemetery. One of the last survivors of the Auschwitz death camp, Terracina was arrested along with his family on 7 April 1944 in Rome, just 15 years old. After a brief detention in Regina Coeli, he was transferred to Auschwitz, Poland, where the other 7 members of his family were killed.