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Silvio Luigi Agostino Chouquer 1914 - 1945 Edit

Born 27.6.1914 in Fontainemore
Died 7.1.1945 in Gusen

Biography

Silvio Luigi Agostino Chouquer was the son of Louis, who in turn was the son of Isidore, a peasant, and Célestine Marthyn, daughter of Josef, also a peasant; he himself was a peasant and worker.

There is a photograph of him given to us by his son that is included here.

Note on his marriage written at the edge of his birth certificate, issued by the former parish of Fontainemore, Aosta Valley: ‘performed in Bard (Aosta Valley) on 28 October 1936 to Silvia Maria Leona, a native of Hône (Aosta Valley)’. (The two villages of Hône and Bard were combined into a single parish during the Fascist period, which was known as Bard from 20 May 1928; the parish of Hône was re-established in April 1946.)

Note on his death written at the edge of his birth certificate, issued by the former parish of Fontainemore, Aosta Valley: ‘Died on 7.1.1945 in Germany in the Mauthausen extermination camp, death certificate of the City of Rome dated 7.3.1962 No. 92 II C.’

His son told us that, before moving to Hône, his father had lived in Issogne (Aosta Valley), while his grandfather came from Settimo Vittone. His wife, Silvia Maria Leona, married name Chouquer, was also born in 1914. From 1945 to 1946 she lived and worked in Settimo Torinese (Turin) with her son, who was born in 1939. She died in 1988.

Chouquer did his military service in the infantry from 27 September 1935 to 16 September 1942. He was given a permanent discharge but was called up on 15 October 1943 to join the army of the Repubblica Sociale Italiana (the Fascist Italian Social Republic). He did not report for duty and was therefore arrested by the Carabinieri police and taken to Aosta jail on 5 January 1944. From there he was taken to Turin jail, where he arrived on 1 March 1944. He and 244 others were deported from Turin to Bergamo on 13 March 1944. The train to Mauthausen left Bergamo on 16 March 1944 and Chouquer arrived there on 20 March together with 563 other deportees.

Chouquer was assigned prisoner number 58797 and was transferred to the Gusen branch camp, where he died on 7 January 1945.

Marisa Alliod

 

Istituto storico della Resistenza a della società contemporanea in Valle d’Aosta, Aosta

 

Translation into English: Joanna White

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