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ISTITUTO COMPRENSIVO DI GATTEO
COMENIUS PROJECT
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We don’t want to talk about heroes, but about men and
women like us, laborers,workers, professionals, united by
one desire, freedom.
Proud people who , despite the fear of consequences,
rejected what seemed certain.
People who fought for a better world through small
and large actions.
Brave women who fought alonside men , partisans who
sacrificed themselves to restore dignity in a terrible moment
of Italian history because of fascist dictatorship and Nazi
domination.
Peolple who tried to save the lives of other men destined to
martyrdom or who dedicated their life to commitment in
all fields: political, social, and cultural for the common
good.
EZIO GIORGETTI THE “ SCHINDLER” OF BELLARIA
On 9th April Ezio Giorgetti
was remembered in
Washington together with
Oskar Schindler, in a
ceremony organized by the
United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum in
honour of peolple who
saved Jews from
antisemitic persecutions
during the second world
war.
On 27th January “International Day of Commemoration in Memory of
the Victims of the Holocaust” Ezio Giorgetti was commemorated in
Bellaria in the Gelso Park by planting an olive tree and the unveiling of
a plaque dedicated to him.
Thirty-nine Jews arrived in Bellaria , in
his father’s hotel , after the armistice.
They’re men, women and children from
Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia, Poland,
escaped on 11th Sept. from a Venetian
concentration camp.
The thirty-nine Jews that Ezio
Giorgetti hosted in his hotel in Bellaria
They were sent by an old guest of him,
Countess Clara Fieda. She organized
the transfer of the group, by lorry, to
Romagna.They presented a letter that
qualified them as “ foreign refugees”.
“I welcomed them, Ezio testified.
“ Only a few days later , after trying to
rent a fishing boat and getting away
by sea, they declared to be Jews and
put themselves in my hands”.
They ask for hospitality, that means
for him and his family risking their
lives.
He and his wife helped them even
asking for support the Marshal of
Carabinieri in Bellaria, Osman Carugno,
the town hall clerk of San Mauro,
Alfredo Giovannetti, the Bishop of
Rimini and the Priest .
One of the survivors, Leopold Studeny, called
Carugno “ our protector at all times”.
Giovanetti provided blank identity cards then
filled with false names and stamps. Finally
they reproduced the emblem of the town of
Barletta (south of Italy) which was occupied by
the Allies. Those stamps were made by an
engraver of Rimini.
The Priest provided mattresses, blankets,
linen and toast prepared by the nuns.
After two months the Nazis came to Hotel
Giorgetti. The Jews moved to differet places,
but
the suspicions of Fascists and Nazis rose so ,
on the advice of the Marshall Carugno, they
decided to go up the hills.
In September 1944, after a year of the
beginning of their odyssey, they were
released by the Allies and transferred to
Rome where they remained till 2th June
1945.
Ezio
Giorgetti
and his
wife Libia
Osman
Carugno
and Ezio
Giorgetti
Ezio Giorgetti while lighting the eternal light
(Jerusalem, 17° June 1964)
Giorgetti in 1964 and
Carugno in 1965 have
been appointed as
"Righteous among the
nations“, an honorific used
by the State of Israel to
describe non-Jews who
risked their lives during
the Holocaust to save Jews
from extermination by
the Nazies
Their names appear on
the Wall of Honor in the
Garden of Righteous in
Yad Vashem
in Jerusalem.
Then they were confered
with honorary
citizenship of GivhatSamuel .
The tree and the
target of Ezio
Giorgetti in the
Garden of Righteous
in Jerusalem
( June 1964)
IRIS VERSARI and The Resistance of women
Women and mothers of Resistance
She was an Italian partisan decorated with the Gold Medal of Valor.
In autumn 1943 Iris’s family hosted a group of partisans. The house was set on fire
on January 1944 by nazifascists. Iris managed to escape while her family, parents and
two of her three brothers, were arrested. Her father was convicted and sentenced to
four years in prison and then interned. He died in a German concentration camp.
In her early twenties Iris joined the Partisan band of Silvio Corbari, he fell in love
with him and shared their clandestine life and reckless actions.
Silvio Corbari
The Partisan group of Corbari.
Silvio Corbari and Iris Versari are standing
At dawn on August 18,1944, the isolated farmhouse where she and Silvio had
taken temporarily refuge together with other two partisans, was surrounded
by Nazifascist troops, informed by a spy.
Iris , injured and unable to move, managed to kill the first soldier but , due
to the impossibility of moving and being aware to become an obstacle to
the escape of her companions, shot herself .
Despite her sacrifice Silvio and the others were captured and killed.
Her body together with those of her companions was
demonstratively hung to the streetlamp in the main
square of Forlì.
Over one quarter of the participants in the Italian Resistance
during World War II were women.
Between 1943 and 1945, some 50,000 Italian women
engaged in resistance activities as military commanders
and combattants,saboteurs and couriers, nurses,
organizers, demonstrators, and political leaders.
They played a vital role with their participation in the
movement to overthrow the Fascist regime, expel the
occupying Germans, and rebuild a progressive and
democratic Italy.
But they also began to articulate their own visions for
Italy’s future and for trasforming women’s role in that
new society
Nineteen
Italian
Partisan
women were
decorated
with the
gold medal
for bravery ,
including
fifteen in
memory
The Vocational School in Cesena named to
Iris Versari
RIMINI’S THREE MARTYRS
Mario Capelli, Luigi Nicolò, Adelio Pagliarani
The three young partisans were hanged on August 16, 1944 in the
main square of Rimini, after whom it was named in 1946.
They are the symbol of the Resistance and the deads in the battle
for Liberation in the Province of Rimini.
Mario Capelli
Adelio Pagliarani
Luigi Nicolò
The three had been members of Italy’s partisan army, and had been caught
after sabotaging an harvesting machinery .
The Nazis in 1944 had an extensive distribution program to take advantage
of Italian food and labour to the war effort.
They were imprisoned and savagely beaten during their detention but
they didn’t reveal the names of their companions.
On the 16th of
August 1944 the
three were
executed by
hanging in
Rimini’s main
square, then
known as Piazza
Julius Ceasar
(the presumed site
of Caesar’s
famous alea iacta
est – the dice is
thrown – speech).
The scaffold of the fork was still standing amid the rubble when a
month later, on September 21 Allied troops entered the city and
liberated it from the Nazifascists .
Rimini
Three
Marthyrs
Square
The place where the execution took place is signaled on the
ground from the idealized projection of the beam which the
nooses were hung, while a bronze plaque is placed on the
facing wall of the building
ALDO SPALLICCI
“ the dad of Romagna”
Aldo Spallicci, born in Santa Croce in Bertinoro, in 1886 was a doctor, a surgeon,
a politician, a soldier and a member of the Italian Parliament.
In August 1914 the First World War broke
out and Italy chose a neutral position but
Spallicci took part in the defence of France
and when Italy entered the war he joined
the Army as a volunteer.
Medical Officer
Spallicci in 1916
first world war
Because of his opposition to Fascism he was arrested twice and imprisoned.
Then he was obliged to move to Milan where he opened a surgery and lived
poorly.
He was one of the leaders of the republican movement in Romagna and in !945
he enrolled in the Republican Party and became member of Parliament in the first
Government after the war.
In addition to his job as a doctor he carried on an intense work of dissemination
of an administrative autonomy of Romagna. He had always been in favour of
regionalization.
He took action in defence of natural heritage (wildlife, botanical and
landscape) of his homeland even with proposals and parliamentary questions
Because of his political battles in favour of the territory he was called “ E ba dla
Rumagna” ( The father of Romagna)
He devoted himself to an intense literary and historical studies of Romagna
The Romagnolo dialect had never had a uniform handwriting due to all its
local variations. He was the first writer who developed a unified writing
system in Romagnolo dialect.
When he wrote his poems ( 1909- 1973) dialect was considered the
language of “the poor and ignorant”, unable to express feelings.
“This is my choice” Spallicci said.
“I decided to sing in my mother dialect because I find myself closer to the soul
of things, to the heart of man, to God”
The soul of Romagna continues to live in “ La Piè”, the magazine he
founded in 1920 to keep alive memories, testimonies, customs of many
generations of Romagna people.
The name given to the magazine “Pie” known as Piadina, underlines
the ability of this flatbread to identify and unify the land of Romagna
under one emblem.
Poems in Romagnolo dialect
Our gratitude goes to all of
them .
Respecting their memory
means to state the meaning of
values that never die.