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Giacomo Sala 1895 - 1945 Edit

Born 16.4.1895 in Agrate Brianza
Died 1.2.1945 in Gusen

Biography

Giacomo Sala, my maternal grandfather, was born in Agrate. He was incarcerated in San Vittore during March 1944. He was deported to Mauthausen on 17 March 1944 and arrived there on 20 March 1944. He was registered in the KL under the number 59116. He was transferred to Gusen KL where died on 1 February 1945.

Deported following the strikes of 1943 in the northern factories in particular in Milan and Turin, my grandfather worked in fact at Breda di Sesto San Giovanni from where about 360 workers were deported. According to the documents in my possession he was part of the Diomede Brigade with the union activists in Breda of section 1. Therefore, he was arrested by the fascist secret police as a partisan or troublemaker, jailed in San Vittore in Milan and then deported to Mauthausen and later to in Gusen I, where probably he worked as a skilled worker in the production plants. He was housed in barrack no. 8, as we have known consulting the Mauthausen Memorial archive (death registers of the sickbay in Gusen), and where he was together with other Italian inmates, especially Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso and Ettore Galimberti. Barbiano di Belgioioso returned in Italy and wrote books on his experience in the lager and on his fellow inmates. One of them was Giacomo Sala.

Fabio Affaba, grandson

 

References: 

Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso: Notte, Nebbia (Milano, Guanda 1996).

Mauthausen Memorial: death registers of the sickbay in Gusen concentration camp, B/12/03.

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