List of stumbling blocks in Puglia

Stumbling stone in Ostuni

The list of stumbling blocks in Apulia contains the stumbling blocks that were laid by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig in the Italian region of Apulia . Stumbling blocks remind of the fate of the people who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide by the National Socialists . As a rule, they are in front of the victim's last self-chosen place of residence.

The first installation in this region took place on January 10, 2016 in Ostuni . The Italian translation of the term stumbling blocks is: pietre d'inciampo .

Italian military internees

Most of the stumbling blocks in Apulia are dedicated to members of the Italian armed forces who, after Italy left the war on September 8, 1943, were disarmed by the German armed forces, arrested and deported as Italian military internees (IMI) to Germany, where they had to do forced labor. The IMI status was used to deny the formerly allied soldiers the status of prisoners of war , which they under the protection of III. Geneva Convention of 1929 on the Treatment of Prisoners of War . The Italian military internees were treated as badly as the Soviet prisoners due to the ruthless exploitation of their labor, food deprivation and lack of medical care.

Antonio Ayroldi was an Italian resistance fighter against the Nazi regime and against the de facto occupation of Italy by German armed forces. He was murdered in the massacre in the Ardeatine Caves .

Copertino

The following stumbling blocks were laid in Copertino :

image	inscription	address	Name, life
		Via Leonardo da Vinci, 44	Luigi Cirfera was born on June 3, 1912 in Copertino. He was a soldier in the 48th Ferrara Infantry Regiment. He died on June 30, 1944 in the German town of Feld.
	ANGELO ANTONIO DELL'ANNA LIVED HERE, BORN IN 1907, ARRIVED IN THE MILITARY, 9.9.1943 MURDERED 27.4.1944, HAMBURG	Via Isonzo, 75	Angelo Antonio dell'Anna was born in Copertino on February 21, 1907. He was a soldier in the 50th Infantry Regiment. He was arrested by the Nazi regime on September 9, 1943, deported and interned in the main camp VI D in Dortmund. He died on April 27, 1944 in Hamburg. He was buried at the Italian military cemetery in Hamburg-Öjendorf.
		Masseria Mollene	Antonio Greco was born in Copertino on December 5, 1919. He was a soldier in the 47th Infantry Regiment. He was arrested and deported by the Nazi regime and died in captivity on March 1, 1945. He was buried at the Italian military cemetery in Frankfurt am Main.
	HERE LIVED FRANCESCO Moschettini BORN 1920 MILITARY INTERN ARRESTED 09/09/1943 MURDERED 02/28/1944 SPRUCE GROVE	Via Vittorio Veneto, 5	Francesco Moschettini 'was born on December 5, 1920 in Copertino. He was a soldier of the 9th Artillery Regiment, was arrested by the Nazi regime on September 9, 1943, deported to Germany and had to do forced labor . He was an IMI. He was killed on February 28, 1944 in the Fichtenhain special camp, in a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp near Krefeld .
	GIOVANNI POLO LIVED HERE BORN 1910 ARRESTED 19.9.1943 DEPORTED DACHAU MURDERED 06.6.1944	Via Re Galantuomo, 10	Giovanni Polo was born in Copertino on January 5, 1910. He was arrested and taken by the SS on September 19, 1943 with Transport No. 2 deported to Germany. He arrived at the Dachau concentration camp three days later , where he was given a red triangle as a political prisoner and was registered under matriculation number 54.507. In the same year, on December 6, 1943, he was together with 177 fellow prisoners in Transport No. 13 transferred to Mauthausen concentration camp . He got there three days later. There he was registered under the matriculation number 40,708. However, he did not stay in Mauthausen, but was assigned to forced labor in the Vienna-Schwechat subcamp. Giovanni Polo lost his life there on June 4, 1944.
	VINCENZO CORONATO VALENTINO LIVED HERE BORN IN 1912 ARRIVED IN THE MILITARY ARRESTED 9.9.1943 MURDERED 11.4.1945 BRAKEL	Via Oronzo Quarta, 34 / B	Vincenzo Coronato Valentino was born in Copertino on August 4, 1912. He was a brigadier of the Bari Legion, was arrested by the Nazi regime on September 9, 1943, deported to Germany and had to do forced labor. He was killed in Brakel on April 11, 1945 .
		Via Sant'Angelo	Cosimo Verdesca was born on June 11, 1900 in Copertino. He was a carabiniere of the Bari Legion. He was arrested by the Nazi regime, deported and murdered in Lendringsen on March 20, 1945 . He was buried at the Italian military cemetery in Frankfurt am Main.

Monteroni di Lecce

The following stumbling blocks were laid in Monteroni di Lecce :

Stumbling block	translation	Location	Name, life
	HERE LIVED SALVATORE MURCIATO BORN 1923 MILITARY INTERN ARRESTED 09/10/1943 MURDERED 03/11/1944 VIENNA	Via Filiberto Monteroni, 85	Salvatore Murciato , also Murciano , was born on September 2, 1923 in Monteroni. He was a Carabiniere assigned to the Legion CC in Trieste . He was arrested on September 10, 1943 and deported to Ostmark , as Austria was then called by the National Socialists. He died on November 3, 1944 in Vienna . He was buried in the Italian military cemetery in Mauthausen, in row 4, grave 469.
	COSIMO PALADINI LIVED HERE BORN 1914 ARRIVED IN THE MILITARY ARRIVED 9.9.1943 MURDERED 24.1.1945 CINSERBURNEN	Via S. Michele Mocavero, 13	Cosimo Paladini was born on April 4, 1914 in Monteroni. He was an infantryman in the 47th Ferrara Infantry Regiment. He was arrested on September 9, 1943 and deported to Saarland . He died on January 24, 1945 in Neunkirchen . He was buried in the Italian military cemetery in Frankfurt am Main, in section K, row 3, grave 11.
	ANTONIO GIOVANNI PALLARA LIVED HERE BORN 1918 ARRIVED IN THE MILITARY ARRESTED 9.9.1943 MURDERED 6.4.1945 SANDBOSTEL	Via XXI Aprile, 15	Antonio Giovanni Pallara was born on May 1, 1918 in Monteroni. He was a lieutenant in the 48th Ferrara Infantry Regiment. He was arrested on September 9, 1943 and deported to Lower Saxony . He died on April 6, 1945 in Sandbostel .

Ostuni

The following stumbling block was laid in Ostuni :

Stumbling block	translation	Location	Name, life
	ANTONIO AYROLDI LIVED HERE, BORN IN 1906 ARRESTED 2.3.1944 GOLFED 24.3.1944 FOSSE ARDEATINE	Corso Cavour 52	Antonio Ayroldi was born in Ostuni on September 10, 1906 . In 1925 he joined the army - as a non-commissioned officer in the 8º reggimento del Genio . He was promoted for the first time after a year and quickly made a career. In 1933 he became a lieutenant. At the beginning of the Second World War he was sent to Libya. From February 1941 to December 1942 he took part in the war in North Africa. He received the Italian War Cross for Bravery and the German Iron Cross . In his letters to the family his increasingly anti-fascist convictions crystallized, encouraged by his experiences during the Africa campaigns. He became a major and returned to Rome as a general. After the armistice of Cassibile , he could not and would no longer bow to Mussolini's dictates. He hid in the Bianca Maria clinic for a few weeks . In November 1943 he joined the resistance in a military formation commanded by Colonel Ezio De Michelis. It smuggled documents, weapons and ammunition, maintained connections with the resistance groups in southern Lazio and built up a network of informants in the capital. Italian fascists and German Nazis searched for him and on March 2, 1944 he was arrested along with other partisans. He was detained and interrogated in Cell No. 1 of the prison on Via Tasso. On March 24, 1944, he was shot by the Germans during the massacre in the Ardeatine Caves . After the liberation of Italy, he was posthumously awarded the silver medal for bravery .

Laying data

The stumbling blocks in this region were laid by Gunter Demnig personally on the following days:

• January 10, 2016: Ostuni
• January 8, 2018: Copertino (for Giovanni Polo)
• January 13, 2019: Copertino (all other stones) and Monteroni di Lecce

Web links

Commons : Stumbling Blocks in Apulia  - Collection of Images

• Stolpersteine.eu , Demnig's website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johannes Bähr, Axel Drecoll, Bernhard Gotto, Kim Christian Priemel, Harald Wixforth: The Flick Group in the Third Reich, R. Oldenburg Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-70856-1 , p. 550
2. ↑ Forced Labor 1939–1945 September 8, 1943: The Italian Military Internees , accessed on December 21, 2019
3. ↑ Comune di Copertino: Memoria d'inciampo , accessed on May 17, 2019
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Comune di Copertino: Cerimonia pubblica di collocazione delle PIETRE D'INCIAMPO alla presenza dell'artista GUNTER DEMNIG in ricordo degli IMI (Internati Militari Italiani) di Copertino morti in Germania , accessed on May 20, 2019 (ital. )
5. ↑ Borghi Autentici: PIETRE D'INCIAMPO, IN RICORDO DI GIOVANNI POLO , accessed on December 19, 2019
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Antonio Martino: Pietre d'Inciampo. Gli onori della comunità per tre concittadini eroi da non dimenticare , Totem giornale , January 10, 2019
7. ^ TG Norba 24 : Monteroni aderisce all'iniziativa Pietre d'inciampo, January 13, 2019
8. ^ ^{A b} La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno : Caduti in guerra: elenco LECCE e provincia (da Alessano a Muro Leccese) , website “Dimenticati di Stato” by Roberto Zamboni, November 9, 2011
9. ^ Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia (ANPI): Antonio Ayroldi , accessed on August 7, 2019
10. ^ ANPI Brindisi: Sulla strada di casa, una “pietra d'inciampo” per il maggiore Ayroldi , accessed on December 21, 2019
11. ↑ Borghi Autentici d'Italia: Pietre d'Inciampo, in ricordo di Giovanni Polo , accessed on December 21, 2019
12. ↑ Comune di Copertino: Cerimonia pubblica di collocazione delle PIETRE D'INCIAMPO alla presenza dell'artista GUNTER DEMNIG in ricordo degli IMI (Internati Militari Italiani) di Copertino morti in Germania ... , accessed on December 21, 2019
13. ↑ Città di Monteroni di Lecce MEMORIA D'INCIAMPO , accessed on December 21, 2019

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