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Giuseppe Marconcini 1894 - 1945 Edit

Born 31.7.1894 in Isola Rizza
Died 26.4.1945 in Gusen

Biography

Giuseppe Marconcini was the son of Umberto Marconcini and Amalia Dall'Agnello. He moved with his family to Verona, where he opened an arts and crafts workshop.

He joined the socialist movement, and in the period following the murder of the socialist politician Matteotti by Fascists in 1924, he became party secretary. His punishment for these political activities was two years’ imprisonment in Verona. He was then sentenced by a special court in Rome to one year in prison and five years’ probation, which resulted in constant arrests by the regime on diverse pretexts.

After the fall of the Fascist government he intensified his activities. Following the German occupation and the fragmentation of the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale (National Liberation Committee) as a result of the arrest of its members, he was appointed member of the second Liberation Committee in the province of Verona, as the contact for the Partito Socialista di Unità Proletaria Alta Italia (Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity in Northern Italy).

He continued his activities in the partisan struggle and even intensified them, but was arrested on 10 July 1944 by the Fascist Black Brigades and the German SS.

During his incarceration in Verona he was tortured, along with the other members of the second Liberation Committee, and then handed over to the SS, who sentenced him and his comrades to deportation.

He arrived at Mauthausen on 4 February 1944. He was registered with prisoner number 126274 and the occupation of toolmaker, and categorised as a ‘protective custody prisoner’. On 16 February he was transferred to Gusen, where he died on 26 April 1945 after terrible suffering.

After the war, when the Partito Socialista di Unità Proletaria was re-established, a unanimous vote posthumously appointed him provincial secretary. In Verona, where a street is named after him, Giuseppe Marconcini is also commemorated on a memorial stone in honour of members of the Liberation Committee of Verona who disappeared in the National Socialist extermination camps.

ANED Verona section

 

Sources:

Archive of ANED Verona, file no. 39, book no. 9, Carlo Marconcini, brother.

 

References:

Giovanna D’Amico, Giovanni Villari, Francesco Cassata (ed.): Il libro dei 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.

Gracco Spaziani: Deportati veronesi morti nei campi di concentramento e di sterminio [Veronese deportees who died in the concentration and extermination camps], appendix dated January 2015 to: Gracco Spaziani / Paola Dalli Cani: Prigionia e deportazione nel veronese 1943–45 [Imprisonment and Deportation in Verona 1943–1945] (Caselle di Sommacampagna [Verona], 2012).

 

Maurizio Zangarini: Storia della Resistenza veronese [History of the Veronese Resistance] (Caselle di Sommacampagna [Verona], 2012).

Translation into English: Joanna White

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