Andrea Zanon 1891 - 1945

Born 5.8.1891 in Schio
Died 15.3.1945 in Gusen

Biography

The family of Andrea Zanon (prisoner number 115783) originally came from Val di Rabbi (Trentino). He took part in both the Libyan War and the First World War as a mountain trooper and was awarded the Medal for Bravery in silver and bronze. He took up his father’s profession of craftsman and boiler maker with a workshop next door to his apartment in the Via Castello in Schio. As a Socialist sympathiser he was among the first to take to the streets after the fall of Mussolini’s government to publicly show his contempt for this regime. For doing so he was reported to the Fascist police. Later he agreed to act as go-between for orders needing to be relayed to the partisan groups led by commander ‘Giulio’ (the lawyer Caroti). He was denounced and arrested in 1944, held for a week in Schio jail, transferred to the prison in Vicenza and then deported with the others arrested in Schio first to the Bolzano camp and subsequently to Mauthausen. From there he was taken to the Gusen II camp, where he died.

My family was informed of the exact location by another survivor, Michele Peroni, who had met our grandfather in Vicenza prison and was with him throughout their deportation.

Andrea Panizzon

 

ANED, Schio section (Vicenza)

 

 

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