Enzo Sereni

Enzo Chaim Sereni ( Hebrew אֶנְצוֹ חיים סֶרֶנִי, * April 17, 1905 in Rome ; † November 18, 1944 in Dachau concentration camp ) was an Italian Zionist and one of the founders of Givat Brenner . As a pacifist, he tried to ensure the peaceful coexistence of Arab and Jewish citizens of Palestine .

Life

Sereni grew up in an assimilated Jewish family. His father worked as a doctor for the Italian king, among others. After graduating from the University of Rome , Sereni emigrated to Palestine with his wife and daughter in 1927. At first they lived in Rechovot , where they joined the kibbutz and the Histadrut trade union movement. In 1928 you were among the co-founders of the Givat Brenner kibbutz. Sereni visited Germany in the early 1930s. Sereni and his family moved to New York in the mid-1930s , where they lived in a Zionist commune on Riverside Drive. From there they returned to Givat Brenner.

With the beginning of the Second World War he had enlisted in the British armed forces and had been trained as a parachutist of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) after deployments in Egypt and Iraq . On May 15, 1944, he jumped into German-occupied northern Italy to carry out a mission planned jointly by the Jewish Agency and the SOE. However, he was caught by German units and later murdered in the Dachau concentration camp .

Sereni was married to Ada Ascarelli (1905-1998), who organized the 38 Alija-Bet refugee ships from Italy from 1945-1948 . They had three children together: Channah (* 1926), Hagar (* 1927) and Daniel (1931–1954). “In July 1954, a state ceremony was held in memory of Enzo Sereni and other paratroopers on the shores of the Sea of Galilee near Kibbutz Ma'agan . A Piper machine taking part in an air show crashed into the crowd. Among the dead were Daniel Sereni, Enzo's and Ada's son, and his wife. "

Honors

Memorial stone for Sereni on the Herzlberg

The kibbutz Netzer Sereni was named after him.
A street in Haifa bears his name.
An Israeli postage stamp was dedicated to him.
The cultural center in Givath Brenner, inaugurated in 1947, was named after Sereni.

Fonts (selection)

Enzo Sereni with RE Ashery: Arabs and Jews in Palestine: studies in a national and colonial problem . Hechalutz Press, New York City 1936.
Enzo Sereni: האביב הקדוש: יומנים, מכתבים, מאמרים, קובץ (He-Aviv ha-Qadosch: Yomanim, Michtavim, Ma'amarim, Qovez; The holy spring: diaries, letters, articles, anthologies), 'Am' Oved, Tel Aviv 1947
Enzo Sereni: מקורות הפאשיזם האיטלקי(Meqorot ha-Faschizm ha-Italqi; roots of Italian fascism). Ha-Qibbuz ha-Me'uchad, Tel Aviv / Yafo 1951
Enzo Sereni and Emilio Sereni: Politica e utopia: lettere 1926-1943 (Politics and Utopia: Letters 1926-1943), taken care of by David Bidussa and Maria Grazia Meriggi. La nuova Italia, Florence 2000.

literature

Ruth Bondy: The Emissary: a life of Enzo Sereni . Shlomo Katz (ex.). Little / Brown, Boston 1977
Clara Sereni: Il gioco dei regni . Giunti, Florence 1993

Web links

Kurzbiografie (English)
Biography of Ada Sereni in the Jewish Women Encyclopedia (English)
Image of the postage stamp with the portrait of Serenis

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Tom Segev : 1967: Israel's second birth. [ו 1967 ־והארץ שינתה את פניהHoza'ah Kether, Tel Aviv / Yafo 2005; German] Helmut Dierlamm, Hans Freundl and Enrico Heinemann (ex.). Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 2007, ISBN 3-89331-789-9 , p. 637 (= series of publications; volume 635).
↑ Tom Segev : 1967: Israel's Second Birth. [ו 1967 ־והארץ שינתה את פניהHoza'ah Kether, Tel Aviv / Yafo 2005; German] Helmut Dierlamm, Hans Freundl and Enrico Heinemann (ex.). Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 2007, ISBN 3-89331-789-9 , p. 637 f. (= Series of publications; Volume 635).
↑ Tom Segev : 1967: Israel's Second Birth. [ו 1967 ־והארץ שינתה את פניהHoza'ah Kether, Tel Aviv / Yafo 2005; German] Helmut Dierlamm, Hans Freundl and Enrico Heinemann (ex.). Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 2007, ISBN 3-89331-789-9 , p. 638 (= series of publications; Volume 635). Omissions not in the original.
↑ Dapim, December 1947

personal data
SURNAME	Sereni, Enzo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sereni, Enzo Chaim (full name); אֶנְצוֹ חיים סֶרֶנִי (Hebrew)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian Zionist and resistance fighter against fascism
DATE OF BIRTH	April 17, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rome
DATE OF DEATH	November 18, 1944
Place of death	Dachau concentration camp

[Segev_2007_637-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Tom Segev : 1967: Israel's second birth. [ו 1967 ־והארץ שינתה את פניהHoza'ah Kether, Tel Aviv / Yafo 2005; German] Helmut Dierlamm, Hans Freundl and Enrico Heinemann (ex.). Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 2007, ISBN 3-89331-789-9 , p. 637 (= series of publications; volume 635).

[Segev_2007_637seq.-2] Tom Segev : 1967: Israel's Second Birth. [ו 1967 ־והארץ שינתה את פניהHoza'ah Kether, Tel Aviv / Yafo 2005; German] Helmut Dierlamm, Hans Freundl and Enrico Heinemann (ex.). Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 2007, ISBN 3-89331-789-9 , p. 637 f. (= Series of publications; Volume 635).

[Segev_2007_638-3] Tom Segev : 1967: Israel's Second Birth. [ו 1967 ־והארץ שינתה את פניהHoza'ah Kether, Tel Aviv / Yafo 2005; German] Helmut Dierlamm, Hans Freundl and Enrico Heinemann (ex.). Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 2007, ISBN 3-89331-789-9 , p. 638 (= series of publications; Volume 635). Omissions not in the original.

[4] Dapim, December 1947