Historian Prof. Tamar Herzig, Vice Dean for Research at Entin Faculty of Humanities, exposed previously unknown evidence of an organized gang rape of a group of enslaved Jewish girls and women from North Africa in the Italian city of Livorno at the beginning of the 17th century. The rape was organized by Dr. Bernardetto Buonromei, a high-ranking state official at Livorno’s slave prison, who was also able to silence any complaints and effectively erase the memory of the victims’ suffering.
Click here for original story, New study sheds light on the phenomenon of female Jewish slavery and uncovers gang rape in Livorno’s slave prison
Source: Phys.org