Tonight Daniel Hyams of Johannesburg has reached his Domitilla, who protected and served all his life. Born in South Africa, Daniel Hyams is linked to the land of Bergamo, in particular the fraction of Albenza Almenno San Bartolomeo, because there has been hosted in 1943 when he escaped from the concentration camp Grumellina, tried to cross the Swiss border to safety. With Domitilla, married in 1948 Albenza, Daniel Hyams has created an incredible story that came from Bergamo and came to the houses of the Little Paradise in South Africa who have accepted, over 40 years, over a thousand children severely handicapped and are now managed by a foundation owned by Guest, working as the five daughters of the couple.
Daniel and Domitilla, who died in January 2011, went through more than half a century of history in South Africa fighting the difficult battle against apartheid and against the culture of the differences that create furrows between the people and with a consistency of granite have promoted the idea of equal dignity of the children of God in the midst of a thousand social tensions have carried out their plan to welcoming people with disabilities to live by severe blacks and whites, healthy and sick, straight and crooked, intelligent and no. Battles without a word or a gesture against someone, firm in the faith grew in the forests of the Bergamo.
They collect their inheritance here in Italy the friends of Domitilla Hyams Rota non-profit organization that promotes the dissemination of knowledge of Domitilla and Daniel and their revolutionary system of care of innocent suffering and unrecoverable. On 16 December he was presented with a volume devoted to their history "Empties" published by the Centro Studi Imagna Valley. The funeral will take place in the church dell'Elvira Rota village of Bapsfontein, South Africa, January 7, 2013 and is planning a mass in memory will be celebrated in the church dell'Albenza Thursday, January 3rd, 2013 at 20:00