Nazis deported more than 1,000 Jews from Rome to Auschwitz in October 1943. Rome's Jewish community on Thursday will commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the deportation of more than 1,000 of the city’s Jews to the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz. The deportation occurred following a dawn raid on 16 October 1943 when Nazi troops, with the collaboration of Italian fascist officials, rounded up the residents of the Jewish Ghetto district. Two days after the raid, 1,022 Roman Jews, including 200 children, were sent to Auschwitz on a sealed train from Tiburtina station. Only 16 would make it back to Rome alive: 15 men and one woman, Settimia Spizzichino. The last of the 16 survivors, Lello Di Segni, died in Rome in 2018. Rome buses tell story of Jewish boy who hid on tram to escape Nazi deportation in 1943 The anniversary of the rastrellamento is marked every year with a wreath-laying ceremony in the capital's Jewish Ghetto district.  A plaque on a building near where the ceremony takes place reads (in Italian): "Settimino Calò left this house where he lived with his wife Clelia Frascati and their nine children. When he returned here he found it empty forever. His loved ones had been rounded up on 16 October 1943 and then deported to Auschwitz along with more than 1,000 Jews."