List of stumbling blocks in Meina and Stresa

Stumbling blocks in Meina

The list of stumbling blocks in Meina and Stresa contains the stumbling blocks in Meina and Stresa in the Italian region of Piedmont , which commemorate 17 victims of National Socialism . In the course of the massacre on Lake Maggiore between September 22 and 24, 1943, 16 guests of the Meina Hotel were murdered. In Stresa, an Italian soldier who refused to fight for the National Socialists was deported to a concentration camp. The Stolpersteine, whose name is pietre d'inciampo in Italian , were laid by Gunter Demnig on January 10 and August 30, 2015 in Meina and on January 17, 2016 in Stresa. The 16 person stones and an explanatory stone in Meina are all in the same place on the shores of Lake Maggiore , the person stone in Stresa on a private road near Piazza Possi.

List of stumbling blocks

The table is partially sortable; the basic sorting is done alphabetically according to the family name.

image	Surname	Location		Laying date	Life
	HOTEL MEINA QUI ERANO RIFUGIATI 22 EBREI SEGNALATI AI SOLDATI TEDESCHI DELLE SS ARRESTATI 15.9.1943 IL 22-23 SETTEMBRE 1943 16 FURANO ASSASSINATI Translation: HOTEL MEINA HERE WERE 22 JEWS REFUGEED GERMAN SS MEN. THEY WERE ARRESTED ON September 15, 1943 ON 22 AND 22. SEPTEMBER 23, 1943 16 WERE MURDERED BY THEM	Meina, Piazzale Marconi		unknown	The stumbling block with the declaration of the Meina massacre indicates the days of death of all victims, 22 and 23 September 1943, respectively. For this reason, the day and circumstances of death have been omitted in all stumbling blocks that are dedicated to the individual. This also distinguishes Meina's stumbling blocks from all others.
	Ester botton	Meina, Piazzale Marconi		Aug 30, 2015	Ester Botten was born on March 23, 1891 in Thessaloniki . She was the daughter of Haim Botton and Fachima Fransci. She married Marco Mosseri. The couple had a son, Giacomo Renato Mosseri. Ester Botten, her husband, her son and her daughter-in-law Odette Uziel were murdered as part of the Meina massacre.
	Vital Cori	Meina, Piazzale Marconi		Aug 30, 2015	Vitale Cori was born in Milan in 1917 . He was the son of Alfredo Cori and Laura De Pierre. He worked at the Hotel Meina bar. He was arrested by the Nazi regime in Meina on September 15, 1943 and murdered a week later.
	Blanchette Fernandez Diaz	Meina, Piazzale Marconi		Jan. 10, 2015	Blanchette Fernandez Diaz was born on July 5, 1931 in Thessaloniki as the daughter of Pierre Fernandez Diaz and Liliana Scialom. She had two older brothers, Jean and Robert, who were born in Thessaloniki in 1926 and 1930 respectively. She fled to Meina with her parents, her grandfather and her two brothers, where she was arrested and murdered by German SS men at the age of twelve.
	Dino Fernandez Diaz	Meina, Piazzale Marconi		Aug 30, 2015	Dino Fernandez Diaz was born on August 9, 1867 in Thessaloniki as the son of Giuseppe Fernandez Diaz and Ester Misrachi. The couple had a son, Pierre, and three grandchildren, Jean, Robert and Blanchette. The fate of his wife is unknown. Together with his son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren, Dino Fernandez Diaz fled to the Meina Hotel, where he was arrested and murdered by German SS men.
	Jean Fernandez Diaz	Meina, Piazzale Marconi		Jan. 10, 2015	Jean Fernandez Diaz was born in Thessaloniki on February 20, 1926 . His father was Pierre Fernandez Diaz, his mother Liliana Scialom. He had two younger siblings, Jean and Blanchette. Together with their grandfather Dino Fernandez Diaz, the family fled to the Meina Hotel, where they were arrested by SS men on September 15, 1943 and murdered in the forest a week later and sunk in the lake.
	Pierre Fernandez Diaz	Meina, Piazzale Marconi		Aug 30, 2015	Pierre Fernandez Diaz was born on September 14, 1897 in Thessaloniki as the son of Dino Fernandez Diaz and Bianca Maier. He was married to Liliana Scialom. The couple had three children born in Thessaloniki in 1926, 1930 and 1931 respectively: Jean, Robert and Blanchette. Pierre Fernandez Diaz, his father, his wife and the three children were murdered by SS men as part of the massacre on Lake Maggiore.
	Robert Fernandez Diaz	Meina, Piazzale Marconi		Jan. 10, 2015	Robert Fernandez Diaz was born in Thessaloniki on January 8, 1930 . He was the son of Pierre Fernandez Diaz and Liliana Scialom. He had an older brother and a younger sister, Jean and Blanchette. His grandfather was Dino Fernandez Diaz. The family of six was able to escape from Thessaloniki, which was occupied by German troops, and lodged in the Meina Hotel. On September 22 and 23, 1943, everyone was murdered by the SS , including 13-year-old Robert Fernandez Diaz.
	Lotte Mazzucchelli Wertheimer Froelich	Meina, Piazzale Marconi		Aug 30, 2015	Lotte Mazzucchelli Wertheimer Froelich, also Fröhlich, was born in Opole on October 1, 1904 , as the daughter of Max Fröhlich and Jeanne Wertheimer. She was married to the Milanese lawyer Mario Mazzucchelli. The couple happened to be in Meina on September 15, 1943 and at the invitation of the comm. Have lunch at the Meina Hotel when the SS appeared and arrested Lotte Mazzucchelli for being Jewish. A week later she was murdered by German SS men in a forest in Meina and then sunk in Lake Maggiore.
	Daniele Modiano	Meina, Piazzale Marconi		Aug 30, 2015	Daniele Modiano was born in Thessaloniki on April 25, 1892 . He was the son of Giacobbe Modiano and Matilde Hachim and came from a large family rich in tradition. He married Georgette Verbeyst. Daniele Modiano was murdered by the SS in Meina , his wife survived the Shoah .
	Marco Mosseri	Meina, Piazzale Marconi		Aug 30, 2015	Marco Mosseri was born in Thessaloniki on July 16, 1888 . He was the son of Giacobbe Mosseri and Flora Tiano. He married Ester Botton. The couple had a son, Giacomo Renato Mosseri. Marco Mosseri, his wife, son and daughter-in-law Odette Uziel were murdered as part of the Meina massacre.
	Giacomo Renato Mosseri	Meina, Piazzale Marconi		Aug 30, 2015	Giacomo Renato Mosseri was born on October 2, 1920 in Thessaloniki . His parents were Marco Mosseri and Ester Botton. He was married to Odette Uziel. Giacomo Renato Mosseri, his wife and parents were victims of the Meina massacre.
	Valerie Nahoum	Meina, Piazzale Marconi		Aug 30, 2015	Valerie Nahoum was born on March 27, 1894 in Thessaloniki as the daughter of Vittorio Nahoum and Bella. She was married to Raoul Torres. The couple were murdered in Meina.
	Giuliano Nicolini	Stresa, private road near Piazza Possi		Jan. 17, 2016	Giuliano Nicolini was born on March 25, 1913 in Stresa. He completed a degree in agricultural engineering and oenology at the Regia Scuola di viticoltura ed enologia in Alba . He worked in the family business, a wine shop. During the Second World War he served in the rank of infantry lieutenant in the 114 ° Battaglione and took part in battles in Albania and Montenegro in 1942. On January 1, 1943 he was promoted to Capitano, German: captain. After Hitler came to power in northern Italy in September 1943, he was one of those Italian soldiers who were unwilling to voluntarily take the side of the Nazi regime. He was arrested. “This was followed by a via crucis in a number of internment and concentration camps”: Stalag 307 in Dęblin-Irena (in today's Poland), Wesuwe, Oberlangen and Stalag XB in Sandbostel (all in Lower Saxony), then in the POW camp Stalag XD 310 and finally in a subcamp of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . He was murdered by the Nazi regime on April 6, 1945 in the Unterlüß subcamp . In the early 1950s, his body was exhumed and buried in Stresa Municipal Cemetery. Posthumously he received the Medaglia d'Argento al Valor Militare , the Italian silver medal for bravery. On April 25, 1972, the city of Milan honored him as a martyr for freedom . In 1974 the regional parliament of Piedmont recognized him as a "political prisoner in the Nazi concentration camps and fighter for freedom". On June 2, 2015, he was posthumously awarded the Medaglia d'onore ai cittadini italiani deportati e internati nei lager nazisti 1943-1945 , the medal of honor for Italian citizens who were deported and interned in Nazi concentration camps between 1943 and 1945.
	Vittorio Haim Pompas	Meina, Piazzale Marconi		Aug 30, 2015	Vittorio Heim Pompas was born on April 12, 1912 in Izmir to Bension Pompas and Anna Levi. He was also a victim of the SS in Meina .
	Liliana Scialom	Meina, Piazzale Marconi		Aug 30, 2015	Liliana Scialom was born on June 26, 1907 in Thessaloniki as the daughter of Daniele Scialom and Olga Nahman. She married Pierre Fernandez Diaz, who was ten years older. The couple had three children: Jean (born 1931), Robert (1930) and Blanchette (1931). The entire family - wife, husband, children and father-in-law - were murdered by SS men as part of the massacre on Lake Maggiore.
	Raoul Torres	Meina, Piazzale Marconi		Aug 30, 2015	Raoul Torres was born on March 2, 1895 in Thessaloniki to Elia Torres and Nelly Fernandez Diaz. He was married to Valerie Nahoum. The couple were murdered in Meina.
	Odette Uziel	Meina, Piazzale Marconi		Aug 30, 2015	Odette Uziel was born on July 1, 1924 in Thessaloniki as the daughter of Davide Uziel and Ida Nehama. She was married to Giacomo Renato Mosseri. The couple were victims of the Meina massacre.

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• Meina on gedenkorte-europa.eu, the homepage of Gedenkorte Europa 1939–1945 , accessed on December 21, 2016
• Laying of the stumbling blocks in Meina on January 10 and August 30, 2015 , in Stresa on January 17, 2016 (Gunter Demnig website, accessed on December 28, 2016)

Web links

Commons : Stumbling Blocks in Meina  - Collection of Images

Commons : Stumbling Blocks in Stresa  - Collection of Images

• Laying of the stumbling blocks in Meina on January 10 and August 30, 2015 , in Stresa on January 17, 2016 (Gunter Demnig's website, accessed on January 23, 2017)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Relocation of the Stolpersteine ​​in Meina on January 10 and August 30, 2015 , in Stresa on January 17, 2016 (Gunter Demnig's website, accessed on December 28, 2016)
2. ↑ ISRN (Istituto storico della Resistenza e della società contemporanea nel Novarese e nel Verbano Cusio Ossola "Piero Fornara"): 30 AGOSTO 2015 - POSA PIETRE D'INCIAMPO A MEINA , 23 August 2015, retrieved on 25 December 2016. From this The source announcing further relocations clearly states that the first relocations took place in January of the same year.
3. ↑ ANPI Novara: Pietre della memoria / 11 gennaio 2015 / Inaugurazione dei piccoli grandi monumenti di Gunter Demnig , [Stones of Memory / 11 January 2015 / opening of the small, large monuments by Gunter Demnig], accessed on 25 December 2016. This source does not describe the laying, but the opening / unveiling of the stumbling blocks. The relocation may therefore have taken place the day before.
4. ↑ The available sources indicate that stumbling blocks were laid for the three youngest victims of the massacre on Lake Maggiore in January. Whether the stumbling block with the explanations was laid in January or August cannot be determined from the sources.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} I nomi della Shoah italiana: Ester Botton , accessed December 25, 2016.
6. ↑ ^{a b c} I nomi della Shoah italiana: Marco Mosseri , accessed on December 25, 2016.
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} I nomi della Shoah italiana: Giacomo Renato Mosseri , accessed on December 25, 2016.
8. ↑ Centro di Documentazione Ebraica (CDEC): Cori, Vitale , accessed on December 26, 2016.
9. ↑ Comitato provinciale di Novara: LA STRAGE DEGLI EBREI - Meina 22-23 September 1943 , accessed on December 28, 2016.
10. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Centro di Documentazione Ebraica (CDEC): Fernandez Diaz, Blanchette , accessed on December 28, 2016.
11. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} I nomi della Shoah italiana: Pierre Fernandez Diaz , accessed December 25, 2016.
12. ↑ ^{a b c d e} I nomi della Shoah italiana: Liliana Scialom , accessed on December 25, 2016.
13. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Centro di Documentazione Ebraica (CDEC): Fernandez Diaz, Jean , accessed on December 28, 2016.
14. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Centro di Documentazione Ebraica (CDEC): Fernandez Diaz, Robert , accessed on December 28, 2016.
15. ↑ ^{a b c d} Centro di Documentazione Ebraica (CDEC): Fernandez Diaz, Dino , accessed on December 28, 2016.
16. ↑ Centro di Documentazione Ebraica (CDEC): Froehlich, Lotte , accessed on December 28, 2016.
17. ↑ Comitato provinciale di Novara: LA STRAGE DEGLI EBREI - Meina 22-23 September 1943 , accessed on December 28, 2016. This source Italianizes the first names of the victims and gives a number of incorrect ages, but gives a good insight into the process of the Massacre.
18. ^ I nomi della Shoah italiana: Daniele Modiano , accessed December 25, 2016.
19. ↑ Centro di Documentazione Ebraica: Modiano, Daniele , accessed on December 25, 2016.
20. ↑ THE MODIANO FAMILY TREE , accessed December 25, 2016.
21. ↑ ISE Institute Sephararde Europeen: Le Lac Majeur, tombe de sefarades , accessed on December 25, 2016.
22. ↑ ^{a b} I nomi della Shoah italiana: Odette Uziel , accessed on December 25, 2016.
23. ↑ ^{a b} I nomi della Shoah italiana: Valerie Nahoum , accessed December 25, 2016.
24. ^ ^{A b} I nomi della Shoah italiana: Raoul Torres , accessed December 25, 2016.
25. ^ ^{A b} Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia: Giuliano Nicolini , February 13, 2015, accessed December 28, 2016.
26. ↑ Dimenticato di Stato (I Caduti sepolti nei cimiteri militari italiani in Germania, Austria e Polonia): Nicolini, uno dei quarantaquattro eroi dimenticati , [Giuliano Nicolini, one of the 44 forgotten heroes], accessed on January 1, 2017
27. ^ I nomi della Shoah italiana: Vittorio Haim Pompas , accessed December 25, 2016.

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