Mesa woman who survived the Holocaust at 2 years old to share story

Eleanora “Mickey” Deutsch was born on Dec. 10, 1942, in Italy to Jewish parents Ernst and Margaret Deutsch, during the later stages of World War II.

She would have anything but a normal childhood, as just two years later, the family would be hiding in the woods outside of Rome in 1944 in an attempt to avoid Nazi soldiers still intent on rounding up Jews even as the allied forces had invaded Italy in 1943.

The Deutsch family would find their safe haven in the small village of Rocca di Papa, Italy, 16 miles southeast of Rome on the Alban Hills. There, a Catholic woman named Chesarina Carnevalle and her family bravely sheltered the family and kept them hidden for the next three years.

The family, which had already suffered through the horrors of the Holocaust earlier in the war, was safe d