Remembrance Day: Venice, flowers and photos for the deported family
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VENICE, 26 JAN – A few flowers and three photographs were placed this morning by an anonymous hand, in the heart of Venice, to renew the memory of the four Dina brothers, deported and killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp in February 1944. The small homage was noticed today by passers-by in front of number 5999 of Cannaregio, where a few years ago the ‘stumbling blocks’ were placed for the young victims of the Shoah.
They are Guido, Giorgia, Anna and Leone Dina, children of Mario Dina and Rosita Corinaldi. They were taken in the night between 5 and 6 December 1943 by Italian police officers together with their father. The mother was arrested a few days later on December 14, 1943, while the grandmother, Elena Fano Corinaldi, was arrested on June 5, 1944. They were respectively 14, 10, 7 and one year old.
Brought to the Venetian prison of Santa Maria Maggiore, the children were first supplied to the Fossoli transit camp, and then deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp, where they were murdered on arrival, on February 26, 1944. In memory of the Dina family seven “Stumbling Stones” were placed in correspondence with the home of the Dina family, captured during the first major roundup against the Venetian Jews.
Only three photographs were placed in the small ‘altar’ in memory of the four little ones. “Leo – it is written in a note accompanying the images – was one year old, and we will never know what face he had”.
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