The palace where the quilt convention was held also had a big exhibit last year for the 70th anniversary of the Massacre of Fosse Ardeatine.  I have seen some of the Stumbling Stones around the city with Fosse Ardeatine as the place of death for some of the Jews…but I never knew where or what that was.  In 1944, the Italian Resistance fighters killed some Germans.  In retaliation, the Germans rounded up 10 men for every German killed.  Many were taken from prisons and jails and then they got Jews and innocent bystanders.  They were taken to a cave at Fosse Ardeatine, forced to kneel and shot in the base of the skull – one bullet per person.  Then the cave was blown up to hide the bodies.  The Germans, usually very exacting, had chosen 5 too many for the retaliation executions, but killed them so no one would know where the bodies were.  After the Allies liberated Italy, the bodies were found and received a proper burial.