Ferdinando Zidar

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Ferdinando Zidar (born February 13, 1915 in Trieste ; † January 31, 2003 ibid) was an Italian communist resistance fighter against National Socialism , prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp , member of the Italian military section of the International Military Organization (IMO) and journalist .

Life

Zidar joined the Communist Party of Italy (ICP) and became involved against the Mussolini regime . After the occupation of Italy by the Wehrmacht , he was interned in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1943 and participated in the prisoner resistance there . Zidar, as a communist, set up a committee to coordinate the political work and military resistance activities of the Italians. In addition to the person in charge, Domenico Ciufoli , Renato Bertolini (Scarpi) and Zidar also belonged to the three-party liaison committee of the Italian military section .

When the Nazi rule was eliminated, Zidar returned to Italy to continue his political work. But already on May 21, 1945 he was arrested in Trieste because the local council wanted to prevent the participation of communists in the separation of the city from Yugoslavia .

Zidar worked as a respected journalist. After a study and the submission of a thesis he was to the doctor doctorate Service. He also supported the remembrance policy of former liberated prisoners who wanted to pass on their experiences of suffering to the younger generation. Donations from the local section of the Association of Former Political Deportees to Concentration Camps (ANED) and objects donated by members of the Trieste association, including Ferdinando Zidar, were exhibited in the Risiera di San Sabba Municipal Museum .

The Fédération Internationale des Résistants (FIR) published a book about the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1960. Ferdinando Zidar was one of the editors of this work entitled Buchenwald .

In the spring of 1968 Zidar supported the efforts of the socialist reform groups of the Prague Spring , but was imprisoned after the suppression of this movement in the ČSSR .

When in 1995 the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp was celebrated, Zidar could no longer attend for health reasons and commissioned Joseph Marafante to convey the greetings of the former Italian resistance fighters. Zidar died on January 31, 2003 in the city of his birth.

literature

  • Emil Carlebach , Willy Schmidt and Ulrich Schneider (ed.): Buchenwald a concentration camp. Reports - pictures - documents. Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-89144-271-8 , p. 119
  • Author collective: Buchenwald. Reminder and obligation. Documents and reports. Berlin 1983, p. 758
  • Laura Maritano: Una misura onesta. Gli scritti di memoria della deportazione dall'Italia, 1944–1993. F. Angeli, 1994, p. 451, excerpt

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author collective: Buchenwald. Reminder and obligation. Documents and reports. Berlin 1983, p. 443
  2. ↑ Author collective: Buchenwald. Reminder and obligation. Documents and reports. Berlin 1983, p. 442
  3. ^ Fausto Pecorari: Dal CLN All ratlines: Note Sulla Vita Di Fausto Pecorari. September 2006, accessed June 29, 2011
  4. ↑ Risiera di San Sabba ( Memento of July 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ http://www.suchebiete.com/details_Antiquäre-Buecher,Buchenwald-1960,10753245.html accessed June 29, 2011
  6. ↑ Giuseppe Marafante: Buchenwald - Inaugurato il monumento agli zingari deportati - TR Dicembre 1995. ( Memento of June 4, 2006 in the Internet Archive ), accessed June 29, 2011
  7. ↑ Dalla deportazione a Buchenwald, alla primavera di Praga (Italian)
personal data
SURNAME Zidar, Ferdinando
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian resistance fighter and journalist (PCI)
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste
DATE OF DEATH January 31, 2003
Place of death Trieste