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Giuseppe Zannini 1917 - 1945 Edit

Born 2.2.1917 in Bari
Died 15.5.1945

Biography

Giuseppe Zannini, the only child of Marco and Adele Lubrano, graduated in Political Sciences. He was a member of the Catholic University Federation (Federazione Universitaria Cattolica Italiana, FUCI), the only independent mass organization tolerated by the fascist regime, and a friend of Aldo Moro. He was hired as an employee in a bank in Bari. In 1943 he was transferred to the Bologna branch. After September 8 he began to perform anti-fascist activities in the city occupied by the German army. He laid the foundations of the VI partisan Brigade “Giacomo”, which was established in the summer of 1944. Captured by the SS in San Lazzaro di Savena on May 21, 1944 with his girlfriend Matilde Camaiori (later released), he was detained in the San Giovanni in Monte prison, from where he was deported to the Lager of Fossoli, then to Bolzano and from there to Mauthausen on August 7, 1944. Assigned to heavy work in Gusen with the qualification of Schutz and the number of matriculation 82553, he was alive on the day of the liberation of the camp, May 5, 1945; he died a few days later due to exhaustion in the American hospital. He was recognized as a partisan from May 1, 1944 to April 21, 1945.

ANPI Bari Committee (Associazione nazionale partigiani d’Italia)

 

Sources:

ITS Digital Archive, Bad Arolsen, Dossier “Zannini Giuseppe”, 1.1.26.1 / 1279147 e 1.1.26.3 / 1856430.

Pasquale Martino: Il partigiano ritrovato. Una storia di Resistenza (San Cesario di Lecce 2018).

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