Guido Levi
Guido Salomone Levi (born April 8, 1896 in Tunis , † 1986 in Paris ) was an Italian anti-fascist .
biography
Guido Levi was born in Tunis to Guglielmo Levi, a doctor (* 1868 in Livorno) and Ines Funaro. He came from a Jewish family who emigrated from Livorno to Tunisia in 1894 . A younger sister, Elia, was born in Tunis on July 5, 1911.
From 1913 to 1917 he studied medicine in Genoa . He then continued his studies at the medical-surgical faculty of the University of Rome .
After completing his studies and returning to Tunis, Levi, known to the public as an anti-fascist, opened a practice for gynecology and obstetrics . The political police under the Italian Ministry of the Interior kept a file on him in 1932; Informants passed their observations on to them. In an informant report dated February 23, 1939, he was described as a "dangerous intellectual propagandist". Levi was a member of the local section of the Lega Italiana dei Diritti dell'Uomo , the Union Démocratique Franco-Italienne and the League of Italian Jews against Racism and was close friends with Luigi Campolonghi.
After Italy entered the war in June 1940, Levi was written out for arrest by the Italian authorities. After the German occupation of France, he helped persecuted anti-fascists, especially Ottavio Abbati , who was interned in Algeria and whom he provided with letters, money and medicine. During the German occupation of Tunisia he had to go into hiding.
In the post-war period he continued his professional activity in Tunis, later in Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris. He died in Paris.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ The biographical information is essentially taken from the file on Guido Levi and his father Guglielmo Levi in the Italian National Archives in Rome. Cf. Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Casellario Politico Centrale, volume 2778, Levi Guglielmo fu Salomone; Volume 2778, Levi Guido Salomone di Guglielmo
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Levi, Guido |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Levi, Guido Salomone (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian anti-fascist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tunis |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1986 |
| Place of death | Paris |