Isacco Nahoum

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Isacco Nahoum (born September 12, 1922 in Milan , † August 20, 1990 in Turin ) was an Italian resistance fighter , politician and author .

Life

Nahoum, son of an Italian mother and a Turkish father, went to school in Milan and later in Viareggio ; as a result of the Italian race laws , however, he had to leave them. To avoid the anti-Jewish persecution, he joined the army and fought on the Russian front , from where he returned to his homeland in early 1943 as one of the few survivors of the 3rd regiment of the "Savoia Cavalleria".

In the days after September 8, 1943, Nahoum was one of the first organizers of the Resistancea , the Italian form of resistance, in the area of ​​Viareggio and later of Milan. The Piedmont invited, he was called "Maurizio Milan" commander of the Fourth Brigade Garibaldi, which contributed to the liberation of Turin.

After the war, he was awarded the Silver Medal for Bravery , and after the Second World War he was Provincial Secretary in Turin for the Partisan Association Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia (ANPI). He worked in various functions for the Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI) in Sicily and Reggio Calabria and was secretary of the Communist Union of Cuneo from 1948 to 1951. Then he followed the call to the Italian capital Rome , where he was responsible for the PCI the partisans represented.

After returning to Turin in 1956, he became a member of the party's national secretariat and various subordinate bodies; so Nahoum was councilor in Venaria Reale and Bra . He then took on tasks as a special representative of the PCI in various countries, such as the Congo and Cuba . In Vienna he represented the Italian resistance at the FIR (Federazione Internazionale della Resistenza).

In 1968 he was elected to the Italian House of Representatives and belonged to the VI. Legislative period to the Defense Committee of the Camera dei deputati . He was vice president of the Italian ANPI and president of its Piedmontese branch.

Works

In 1954 Nahoum published the novel Fuoco in pianura , a representation of the Italian partisan struggle, which was published by Feltrinelli . The following year the anthology of resistance, La resistenza al fascismo, edited with Fausto Voghi , followed . In 1963 he was one of several directors involved in the documentary Giorni di furore ; in addition, his autobiography was published under the title Esperienze di un comandante partigiano (Edition La Pietra, 1981).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nahoum at the Camera dei Deputati
  2. ↑ http://www.torinocittadelcinema.it/schedafilm.php?film_id=2159&stile=large
  3. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano, I registi. Rome 2002, p. 304
  4. ↑ on google books
personal data
SURNAME Nahoum, Isacco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian resistance fighter, politician, member of the Camera dei deputati and documentary film director
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 1990
Place of death Turin