In the ghetto

The Venice guidebook said that the term ghetto was first coined there, and was used to refer to the part of the city which Jewish people were confined to by law. I suspect if you said that on QI the klaxon would sound - and it’s nothing to be proud of; but either way our hotel was close to the Venice ghetto, which is where we found this monument to those who were rounded up and sent off in trains never to return.

Now it seems as important as it has ever been that we don’t forget where irrational hate can lead.