Remembrance day, medals of honor for six Ligurians from the Quirinale. The mayor of Genoa: “Without memory there is no future”
Genoa – “My father was interned in the Wiesbaden prison camp in 1943, at the time he worked at the Baglietto shipyards in Varazze, during a raid by the Nazi-fascists he was captured and taken up to Germany, I’m still looking for the documents to understand the reason for the deportation “. Like this Angelo FranzoniDomenico’s son, interned from 17 May 1943 to 1 April 1945, recounts the experience of his fatherone of the six Ligurians awarded with medals of honour granted by the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella during there ceremony for the ‘Remembrance Day’ at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa. The medals of honor were handed over to the family members by the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Edoardo Rixiby the prefect of Genoa Renato Francescalliby the Vice President of the Regional Council of Liguria Armando Sanna and by the mayor Marco Bucci.
“My not no was in the army and after September 8, 1943 was caught from the Germans, but I haven’t been able to find out yet in which fields– explains Alice Deluca nephew of Lino Rossi internal in Greece, Croatia And Germany from 9 September 1943 to 8 May 1945 – I only know that before imprisonment it was hidden for a certain period from a family in Serbia a VukovarI found his letters confirming it, then after his arrest I believe he was taken to Germany for forced labour”.
The other medals of honor of the President of the Republic were presented to the family members of Silvio Schenone interned at Mauthausen from 8 September 1943 to 15 July 1944, Stanislaus Simeon interned in Stalag XB Germany until 17 August 1945, Pasquale Varese interned at Hanomag from 10 September 1943 to 1 April 1945 e Patrick Vedovati interned in the Meppen concentration camp from 8 September 1943 to 18 August 1945.
“The images must remain in our eyes history of that tragedy, the atrocities perpetrated must remain in our minds. – exhorts the vice president of the Sanna regional council – The final solution of the Jewish people and of anyone who was cataloged as ‘different’ or non-aligned was the consequence of a legal legitimation, but first of all an ideological one”.
“We must not forget what happened many years ago, there is no future without memory. – remarks Mayor Bucci – We must remember that there were racial laws in Italy, those that generated the transfer of people to concentration camps. The racial laws that even Genoa did not implement in the right way, many Genoese instead did their utmost to help people”.