Milan, 11 June (LaPresse) – Sultana Razon Veronesi, paediatrician and widow of Umberto Veronesi, passed away today at the age of 94. The news was announced by the Veronesi Foundation. A paediatrician and Holocaust survivor, Razon died today in Milan, the city where she was born in 1932. A paediatrician, she practised for forty years in Milan at the Fatebenefratelli and San Carlo hospitals. She had six children from her long marriage to Umberto Veronesi. Born in Milan to Turkish parents, Sephardic Jews who had come to Italy in 1930, as a child she suffered under the racial laws and was deported along with her family. She managed to return and, with great sacrifice, resume her studies. She would say she was grateful to her parents (“they protected us so much, because they made us study”) and that she had been able to study at university thanks to merit-based fee exemptions. Her mother fell ill with cancer and during that difficult period (“by day I worked and studied, by night I cared for my mum”) she met Umberto Veronesi, a brilliant young doctor and volunteer assistant, who would become her husband a few years later. With him she shared a large family and a great passion for medicine and research, until the Professor’s death in 2016.
Milan: Sultana Razon, widow of Umberto Veronesi and Holocaust survivor, has died
Milan, 11 June (LaPresse) – Sultana Razon Veronesi, paediatrician and widow of Umberto Veronesi, passed away today at the age of 94. The news was announced by the Veronesi Foundation. A paediatrician and Holocaust survivor, Razon died today in Milan, the city where she was born in 1932. A paediatrician, she practised for forty years in Milan at the Fatebenefratelli and San Carlo hospitals. She had six children from her long marriage to Umberto Veronesi. Born in Milan to Turkish parents, Sephardic Jews who had come to Italy in 1930, as a child she suffered under the racial laws and was deported along with her family. She managed to return and, with great sacrifice, resume her studies. She would say she was grateful to her parents (“they protected us so much, because they made us study”) and that she had been able to study at university thanks to merit-based fee exemptions. Her mother fell ill with cancer and during that difficult period (“by day I worked and studied, by night I cared for my mum”) she met Umberto Veronesi, a brilliant young doctor and volunteer assistant, who would become her husband a few years later. With him she shared a large family and a great passion for medicine and research, until the Professor’s death in 2016.
