A smiling angel
A boy
A mischievous rascal
A smiling angel
A child
A future
A smiling angel
A love eternal
A human being not capable of hate
A smiling angel
He could have played football for AC Milan or Inter Milan, or any team, His future was limitless
His love will live on , The hate that murdered him will never win.
Carlo D’Angeli was born in Milan, Italy, on 2 December 1938. He was the son of Mario and Renata (Fiorentini). His father was a clerical worker.
Jews had lived in Milan, a large commercial and industrial city in Northern Italy, since Roman times. In 1859, when Milan became part of the new Italian kingdom, Jews received full rights. In 1931, there was a substantial Jewish community in the city. Most Jews living in Milan were well-educated, hard-working, and middle-class.
Italian Jews were well integrated into all aspects of Italian social and cultural life. They worked in nearly every profession, including government and the military.
When Mussolini passed his anti-Jewish racial laws in November 1938, Jews were barred from most professions and public education. They were devastated—both economically and emotionally. During the war, life went on for most Jews. It was, however, a bit harder than before. Everyone knew families with members who had converted, emigrated or had been arrested. Many endured unpleasant antisemitic incidents that made it extremely hard to earn a living.
When Hitler invaded Italy on 8 September 1941 Carlo was almost five years old. His family was evacuated to the small town of Montecatini-Terme to escape the bombing. One month later, the Germans began rounding up Jews for deportation to death camps in Poland and Germany.
On 5 November 1943, members of the Fascist Militia and the German SS found Carlo, his parents, and his baby brother, Massimo. On 9 November, they were shoved into an overcrowded, unsanitary cattle car in Florence. The train was the second deportation train to leave Italian soil and carried at least 400 Jews to the Auschwitz death camp.
Carlo’s train arrived in Auschwitz on 14 November 1943. Immediately upon arrival, he was sent to the gas chambers, where he was murdered.
In two weeks, he would have been five years old.
A smiling angel—
Source
History of Sorts 
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