Giovanni Bortoloso 1912 - 1945
Born 29.5.1912 in Schio
Died 22.4.1945 in Mauthausen
Biography
Giovanni Bortoloso ran a book shop and stationers of the same name on the Piazzi Rossi in Schio. When he was dismissed from his army medical examination due to a handicap to his leg, he joined the partisans and became commander of the reconnaissance patrol in the reserve forces of the Fratelli Bandiera battalion of the Brigate Garibaldi. He lived with his young wife in Viale Trento e Trieste, where he was arrested by a group of Fascists and Germans in the night of 22 November 1944.
On 11 December 1944 he was transferred to the San Biagio jail in Vicenza, which was under German control. On 21 December 1944 he was taken to the Bolzano transit camp (prisoner number 7518). On 8 January 1945 he was deported to Mauthausen, where he arrived on 11 January. He was assigned prisoner number 115807. On 22 April 1945 he was gassed at the same time as Bruno Zordan[1] – possibly in an attempt to suppress the resistance groups forming in the Mauthausen concentration camp.
Lucia Riva
ANED, Milan section
[1] From: Giovanna D’Amico / Giovanni Villari / Francesco Cassata (ed.): Il libro die deportati. I deportati politici 1943–1945 [The Book of Deportees. Political deportees 1943–1945], vol. I (Milan 2009), research led by Brunello Mantelli, Nicola Tranfaglia, sponsored by ANED:
- Bruno Zordan, born on 10 October 1920 in Schio (Vicenza); arrested in Schio; sent to Mauthausen in 1945; first prisoner number 115837, categorised as a ‘protective custody prisoner’; profession stated as bookkeeper. Died on 22 April 1945 in Mauthausen.
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