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The Liberation of Pistoia
The Liberation of Pistoia

After a year of German occupation, Pistoia was liberated on 8 September 1944. This followed a major operation by partisa...

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Father Libero Raglianti
Father Libero Raglianti

Father Libero Raglianti was a Tuscan priest and partisan who was active in the Resistance in Versilia, where he distingu...

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Antonio Giuriolo
Antonio Giuriolo

Antonio Giurolo was born in San Pietro a Castello di Arzignano (Vicenza) on 12 February 1912. He was known as “Capitano ...

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Mario Nanni
Mario Nanni

Mario Nanni was a partisan in the hills around Bologna. After the Second World War, he became a renowned artist. Towards...

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Gino Costantini
Gino Costantini

Gino Costantini, a railway worker from Vergato, was a valiant commander in the Reno Valley, working alongside the Modena...

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Father Luigi Tommasini
Father Luigi Tommasini

Father Luigi Tommasini, parish priest of Burzanella, was an opponent of fascism, chaplain to Italian workers in Germany,...

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Jean Moulin
Jean Moulin

Jean Moulin was a French prefect and Resistance leader who worked to unite the main Resistance movements under the autho...

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Peter Gingold
Peter Gingold

Peter Gingold was a German Jewish communist and anti-Nazi resistance member who was active in exile in France and fought...

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Ben Ferencz
Ben Ferencz

Ben Ferencz was a Nuremberg prosecutor and one of the last surviving figures of the postwar trials, who dedicated his li...

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Frank Meier
Frank Meier

Frank Meier was an Austrian-born barman who became a central figure at the Ritz in Paris, navigating the complex realiti...

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Jean Luchaire
Jean Luchaire

Jean Luchaire was a French journalist and collaborationist figure during World War II, known for his early pro-Nazi stan...

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Total War in Maresca
Total War in Maresca

Maresca was one of the most devastated towns in the entire province of Pistoia during the Second World War. Total war pr...

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Resistance, Deportation, and Massacres in Sambuca Pistoiese
Resistance, Deportation, and Massacres in Sambuca Pistoiese

During the Second World War, Sambuca Pistoiese was affected by roundups, deportations, massacres, and anti-partisan oper...

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Leone Ginzburg & Natalia Ginzburg
Leone Ginzburg & Natalia Ginzburg

Leone Ginzburg, an anti-fascist intellectual and proponent of the Italian political idea of liberal socialism, was kille...

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General Stanisław "Sosab" Sosabowski
General Stanisław "Sosab" Sosabowski

This well-known Polish soldier was born in 1892 in Galicia under Austrian rule. He quickly became the main provider for ...

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Ferruccio Parri
Ferruccio Parri

Ferruccio Parri, a liberal anti-fascist, helped lead Italy’s Resistance, survived imprisonment, and became the first pos...

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Lucie Bernard
Lucie Bernard

Lucie Bernard, known as Lucie Aubrac, was an important French communist partisan who fought against Nazi Germany and th...

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Bolesław Feliks Stachoń
Bolesław Feliks Stachoń

​Bolesław Stachoń was a Polish Major General who is buried at the Maczek Memorial alongside lower-ranking soldiers. He w...

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Der Winterkrieg in Kuhmo​
Der Winterkrieg in Kuhmo​

Auf den vereisten Schlachtfeldern von Kuhmo kam es während des sowjetisch-finnischen Winterkrieges zu heftigen Gefechten...

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William “Bill” Stone
William “Bill” Stone

​​William ‘Bill’ Stone was one of the last surviving Royal Navy veterans of both World Wars. He served with distinction ...

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​Sonya D’Artois​
​Sonya D’Artois​

Sonya D’Artois, eine britische Agentin des Special Operations Executive (SOE), sprang 1944 im Alter von nur 19 Jahren mi...

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​Nathan Louis Berger​
​Nathan Louis Berger​

Feldwebel Nathan Louis Berger, Funker der Royal Canadian Air Force, kam am D-Day ums Leben, als das Flugzeug Dakota KG42...

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​Louise Boitard​
​Louise Boitard​

Louise Boitard, eine mutige Lehrerin, schloss sich während des Zweiten Weltkriegs unter dem Codenamen „Jeanine“ der fran...

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​Lloyd Vernon Chadburn​
​Lloyd Vernon Chadburn​

Lloyd Vernon Chadburn, ein hochdekorierter kanadischer Pilot, führte während des Zweiten Weltkriegs die 416. Staffel und...

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