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Imposing, fascinating and mysterious but closed: this is how it was for us, citizens of a Vercelli of the past, the majestic Synagogue of Via Foa, the silent queen of a ghetto that came to life only in the tales of the elderly. To give her life, voice and passion back, and to bring her back to the center of the cultural life of the city, a woman, Rossella Bottini Treves, president not only of the Jewish Community of Vercelli but also of those of Biella, Novara and Verbano Cusio Ossola.