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Giuseppe Vidale 1901 - 1945 Edit

Born 22.12.1901 in Schio
Died 10.2.1945 in Mauthausen

Biography

The son of Giovanni Battista Vidale and Celestina Lighezzolo worked as an electrician in a senior position at the Lanificio Rossi woollen mill. He approached his work with great passion and competence, which prompted his employers to send him – also on account of his experience doing military service in Libya – from September 1936 to May 1937 to work on building an electric generating plant in Beirut – at that time still part of Syrian territory.

After joining the ‘Fratelli Bandiera’ partisan battalion as a political commissar, he was arrested in November 1944 on the premises of the Lanificio Rossi woollen mill. He was held in the town’s prison, was later transferred to the San Biagio prison in Vicenza and, on 21 December, he was taken to the police transit camp at Bolzano, from where he was deported on 8 January on ‘Transport 501’ to Mauthausen. According to an eyewitness account given by the only person from Schio to have survived deportation, Giuseppe Vidale died on 10 February 1945 in Mauthausen.

Ugo de Grandis

 

Centro Studi Igino Piva ‘Romero’, Schio (Vicenza)

Translation into English: Joanna White

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