Luigi Briani 1900 - 1944

Born 24.1.1900 in Desio
Died 17.10.1944 in Gusen

Biography

Crane operator at the Breda works.

Picked up from his apartment by the Fascist militia on 12 April 1944 for participating in the Breda strikes and subsequently taken to the following jails and camps:

San Vittore jail, Milan

Bergamo jail

Fossoli (Modena) transit camp

Bolzano concentration camp (on 22 July 1944)

Deported from Bolzano on 5 August 1944 on transport no. 73; arrival in Mauthausen on 7 August

Prisoner number 82294

Transferred to Gusen concentration camp, where his body was burned in the crematorium on 17 October 944.

 

G. Carlo Briani

 

ANED, Milan section

 

Translation into English: Joanna White

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