The Gestapo detained 1259 people - 363 men, 689 women, and 207 children - during the raid.
Of these, 1023 were identified as Jews and deported to Auschwitz.
“Eighty years have passed since the ferocious roundup of the Jews from the Rome ghetto on 16 October 1943,” Mayor Roberto Gualtieri said on Facebook on Monday after laying a wreath at the Great Synagogue of Rome.
“It is a profound wound on the history of our city and that of the entire country.
“This date must remain engraved in our memory, so that such unprecedented barbarism never happens again.”
Defence Minister Guido Crosetto was also among the people to mark the anniversary.
“Over 1000 people were deported to death camps,” Crosetto said via X.
“Only 16 returned. Never again.”
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