Vincenzo Salcito 1921 - 1945 Edit

Der Medizinstudent Vincenzo Salcito wird zusammen mit dem Vater Antonio am 16. Februar 1944 in Roviglieto (Perugia) verhaftet und im Gefängnis von Perugia inhaftiert, wo er am 16. Februar in eine Zelle mit Don Pietro Arcangeli gesperrt wird. Dieser erinnert sich in seinem unveröffentlichten Tagebuch an ihn: „Stolz und selbstbewusst, bereit, sich blutig schlagen zu lassen, um seinem Vater nicht zu widersprechen, der sich mehr um seinen studierenden Sohn und die anderen zu Hause sorgt als um sich selbst. Am Tag darauf führt die deutsche Bösartigkeit auch dazu, dass sein Vater in Ketten vor unserer Zelle vorbeigeführt wird. Dem jungen Mann entfährt ein Schrei … dann fällt er in Ohnmacht! Niemand spricht. Der Schmerz hat unser Herz versteinert und uns verstummen lassen. Der junge Vincenzo wird in mehreren Verhören gefoltert, bis sein Nasenbein gebrochen ist, aber er verrät seinen Vater nicht, der anderswo isoliert untergebracht ist.“

Vincenzo wird am 3. Mai 1944 in das Durchgangslager Fossoli gebracht und am 21. Juni 1944 nach Mauthausen deportiert (Häftlingsnummer 76560). Er wird anschließend in die Außenlager Großraming und „Schlier“ überstellt. Er stirbt schließlich am 30. April 1945 in Mauthausen. 

Maria Pizzoni

ANED, Sektion Foligno / Fondazione memoria della Deportazione

Maria Pizzoni ist Präsidentin der Associazione nazionale ex deportati (ANED), Sektion Umbrien.

Aus dem Italienischen von Camilla Brunelli

Vincenzo Salcito, nato a Pisa il 16 novembre 1921, studente di medicina, arrestato a Roviglieto (Foligno, Pg) insieme al padre Antonio il 16 febbraio 1944 e recluso nel carcere di Perugia, dove il 16 febbraio fu rinchiuso in una cella con don Pietro Arcangeli, che, in suo diario inedito, lo ricorda 

“fiero e baldanzoso, pronto ad essere picchiato a sangue pur di non contraddire suo padre che accorato più che per sé, per questo suo figlio universitario e per gli altri in casa. Il giorno appresso,la malignità tedesca arriva anche a questo, si fa passare suo padre incatenato davanti alla nostra cella. Il giovane emette un grido … poi perde i sensi! Nessuno parla. Il dolore ha pietrificato il nostro cuore e la nostra bocca. Il giovane Vincenzo nei vari interrogatori viene torturato fino alla rottura del setto nasale, ma non tradisce suo padre segregato altrove.” 

Portato a Fossoli il 3 maggio 1944, fu deportato a Mauthausen il 21 giugno 1944, numero 76560. Trasferito nei sottocampi di Grossraming e “Schlier”, perse la vita a Mauthausen il 30 aprile 1945.

Maria Pizzoni

ANED Sezione di Foligno / Fondazione memoria della Deportazione

On 16 Februar 1944 Antonia Salcito, father of seven children, captain of the Brigata Garibaldi of Foligno, was arrested in Roviglieto (Perugia) together with his son Vincenzo; his son Franco was also with them but was immediately released because of his young age. First incarcerated in Perugia prison, then taken to the Fossoli transit camp on 3 May 1944, he was deported to Mauthausen on 24 June 1944 and assigned prisoner number 76559. After his transfer to the Großraming subcamp he was transported back to the main camp. He died in Mauthausen on 27 April 1945.

The medical student Vincenzo Salcito was arrested together with his father Antonio on 16 February 1944 in Roviglieto (Perugia) and imprisoned in Perugia jail, where he was locked in a cell with Don Pietro Arcangeli on 16 February. In his unpublished diary, Arcangeli remembers him as: ‘[P]roud and confident, ready to be beaten to a pulp in order not to contradict his father, who was more worried about his student son and the others at home than about himself. The next day the Germans’ malice went so far as to lead his father past our cell in chains. The young man uttered a cry … and then fainted! No one spoke. The pain had turned our hearts to stone and silenced us. Young Vincenzo was tortured over several interrogations until his nose was broken, but he did not betray his father, who was being held in isolation elsewhere.’

Vincenzo was taken to the Fossoli transit camp on 3 May 1944 and deported to Mauthausen (prisoner number 76560) on 21 June 1944. He was subsequently transferred to the Großraming and ‘Schlier’ subcamps. He finally died on 30 April 1945 in Mauthausen.

Maria Pizzoni

ANED, Foligno section

Translation into English: Joanna White