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Amedeo Tamussin 1925 - 1945 Edit

Born 24.8.1925 in Collina
Died 30.3.1945 in St. Aegyd

Biography

As a young resistance fighter, my brother Amedeo joined the Brigate Garibaldi in Carnic Friuli. He did so in the first place to fight for the independence of his homeland, but also to fight against Nazi-Fascism, in particular because of the brutality with which the Fascists moved against their brothers who did not share their political views.

After Fascist traitors from the town had given the SS a list of local partisans, he was handed over to the Germans. For every person on the list, the SS had taken one of their parents hostage and threatened to deport them should the children not hand themselves in.

Although I was only a child at the time, I remember as if it were yesterday that I went to school while Amedeo and one of his comrades went to hand themselves in. It was the last time that I saw him, and I have this image seared in my memory: two youths walking with rucksacks on their shoulders and filled with pride, but without any inkling of their fate. The two young men were walking towards death.

After news of his death reached us our mother shed tears of grief daily, on each and every day until the end of her life.

I now hope that the death of so many people in the Holocaust was not for nothing, that it is a lesson to subsequent generations so that there may be complete disarmament and the abolition of all borders, so that there may never be injustice or racism again.

Today I am old but when I look around me, there are still so many wars, too much murder, for different reasons, reasons which always lead back to the same thing in the end: money, desire for power and racism. Sadly I won’t live to see an end to all that but I hope at all events that you young people will live to see a future which is more just for everyone.

I hope that I can go to St. Aegyd in the near future to say Requiem at my brother’s grave.

 

Remo Tamussin

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