Born into a Jewish family from Livorno Frida was arrested on April 1st 1944 and deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. There she was selected for forced labour. She worked in the effects storage, where she had to sort the belongings of the people who were murdered.

Photo: Private Collection Roberto Rugiadi; Exerpts from: Ilda Verri Melo (Hg.), La Speranza tradita. Antologia della Deportazione politiica toscana (1943-1945), Florence 1992