The plaque placed on the right of the entrance door of the complex of Via Mazzini 95 (formerly via Sabbioni 2225 of ancient numbering) recalls the members of the Jewish community of Ferrara who did not return from the extermination camps. The names, actually ninety-seven, which run on two columns, are preceded by a moving dedication:

OF THE COMMUNITY OF FERRARA

NINETY-SIX THE TORTURED BODIES

IN THIS STONE THEIR NAME

IN THE ARMS OF THE ETERNAL

THE IMMORTAL SOUL

Ancona Guglielmo - Ancona Olga - Ascoli Elisa - Bassani Carlo - Bassani Giuseppe - Bassani Lampronti Rina - Bassani Marcella - Bemporad Bianca - Bemporad Jole - Bemporad Silvio - Borghi Treves Elisa - Borghi Finzi Giorgia - Caffaz Giandotti Ida - Castelfranchi Renato - Coen Giorgio - Conegliano Bruno - Conegliano Giulio - Del Vecchio Emma - Fano Emilio Felice - Fano Melli Amedea - Fano Giuseppina - Farber Davide - Farber Fink Ester - Farber Bruno - Fink Benzion - Fink Birnbaum Rosa - Fink Isacco - Finzi Giuseppina - Finzi Silvio - Forti Leonello - Forti Jesi Carolina - Gutmann Levi Malvina - Jacchia Diana - Jacchia Dina - Jesi Marzola Rosina - Lampronti Umberto - Lampronti Forti Berta - Lampronti Carlo - Lampronti Marco - Lampronti Polacco Alba - Levi Gastone - Levi Fargion Elisa - Magrini Ascoli Isa - Magrini Silvio - Magrini Bassani Albertina - Matatia Nessim - MatatiaHakim Matilde - Matatia Roberto - Matatia Camelia - Melli Amelia - Melli Novella - Minerbi Aldo - Minerbi Gino - Minerbi Ravenna Bianca - Neppi Hanau Olga - Ottolenghi Gianni - Ottolenghi Azzarelli Lina - Pesaro Costanza - Ravenna Ciro - Ravenna Giorgio - Ravenna Mario - Ravenna Eugenio fu Isacco - Ravenna Rodolfo - Ravenna Vittorio - Ravenna Roberto - Ravenna Gino - Ravenna Rossi Letizia - Ravenna Franca - Ravenna Marcello - Ravenna Ravenna Ravenna Margherita - Ravenna Padoa Marcella - Ravenna Germana - Rietti Alfredo - Rietti Cavalieri Argia - Rietti Gastone - Rietti Leonella - Rietti Giulia - Rietti Nello - Rossi Margherita - Rossi Milena - Rotstein Fink Lina - Rotstein Adele - Rotstein Giorgio - Rotstein Wanda - Saralvo Rino - Saralvo Cesarina - Saralvo Melli Zaira - Saralvo Lilio - Saralvo Lindo - Sinigallia Luigi - Teglio Ugo - Zamorani Emilio - Zamorani Maria - Zamorani Daniele - Zamorani Cavalieri Giuseppina - Zevi Emma - Trevi Ildebrando

A second plaque, placed to the left of the door, commemorates all the victims of racial hatred.

"On the occasion of Kippur, the fast of Atonement which is the most solemn Israeli religious day, the residual Ferrara Community gathered throughout the day in one of the Temples of Via Mazzini, which after the devastation suffered could be readjusted with temporary adaptations. Chief Rabbi Leone Leoni dedicated his speech to the commemoration of the victims of Nazi-fascism. With moving and inspired words he turned his thoughts to the six million Jews of Europe who died victims of the Teutonic army and Nazi torturers who ended up in annihilation camps, creation of German ferocity, suppressing them in gas chambers and crematoria.

The Rabbi said that in the face of this great holocaust that has been asked of Israel, the mind goes astray if faith in God does not sustain us. In the evaluation of the universal values of history, man is absolutely insufficient and can and must only humbly bow his head to God.

[…] Before speaking of the Ferrara deportees, the Rabbi commemorated the dead in Italy for the Nazi-fascist persecution: he first recalled the lawyer Ugo Teglio (37) who died with ten other innocent victims killed on the night of 15 November 1943, who shed their blood for the cause of justice and freedom and then spoke of Adolfo Lampronti (66) who died in 1940, following the police internment, of Walter Rossi (20), belonging to the partisans of Piedmont and killed in 1944, by the Nazis, of the old people of the Hospice who died for the hardships and deprivations of prison: Elisa Ascoli (81), Aldo Minerbi (...), Giuseppina Fano, Giuseppina Finzi, Zaira Saralvo and Rosina Jesi. Deaths of illness aggravated by long internment or by the emotions of the republican period are to be remembered the lawyer Nino Contini and the lawyer Ausonio Ravenna elected figures of the Ferrara forum and of the Israeli Community and Alberto Minerbi was Giulio". Of the deportees "four have returned to Ferrara (Carlo Schonheit with his wife Gina and Gino's son Franco and Eugenio Ravenna) while a fifth, Carlo Rietti, is about to return. News has come of the death of Nello Rietti, Novella Melli and Amelia Melli, while the old Carolina Fotti Jesi died in Carpi while the convoy was forming for Germany. Of all the others there is no news […]”. ("Il Corriere del Po", 19 November 1945)

A Memorial Tablet in Via Mazzini

"When, in August 1945, Geo Josz reappeared in Ferrara, the only survivor of the one hundred and eighty-three members of the Jewish Community that the Germans had deported to Germany in the autumn of ’43, and which most considered to be all over the place in the gas chambers, no one in the city recognized him from the beginning.

Josz. […] Immersed in the brilliance and silence of early afternoon, a silence which at wide intervals was interrupted by gunshots, Via Mazzini seemed empty, abandoned, preserved intact. And such had also appeared to the young worker that from one and a half, mounted on a small scaffolding with a newspaper cap on his head, he had begun to traffic around the marble slab that they had given him to post two metres high against the dusty brick of the façade of the synagogue". (Bassani, ed. 1991, pp. 87-88)