The political events close in . A journey to visit his brother Ernesto in Grenoble exposes Giorgio to news of the Nazi persecution , but he returns to Ferrara . With the beginning of the German invasion of the Soviet Union , Giampiero is recruited and sent to the Russian front . By 1943 all the young Jews who used to visit the Garden of the Finzi-Continis have been arrested . Giampiero has been killed at the Russian front
Nazi persecution
The Holocaust
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (film)