List of stumbling blocks in Pordenone

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The list of stumbling blocks in Pordenone contains an overview of the stumbling blocks in the Italian town of Pordenone in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region .

Stumbling blocks are supposed to remind of the fate of the people who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide by the National Socialists . The stumbling blocks were laid by Gunter Demnig .

As a rule, the stumbling blocks are located in front of the victim's last freely chosen place of residence.

Some of the tables can be sorted; the basic sorting is done alphabetically according to the family name.

Pordenone

image translation Location Name, biography

FELICE BET LIVED HERE,
BORN 1928
PARTISAN
ARRESTED 7.1.1945
DEPORTED
MAUTHAUSEN
FATE UNKNOWN
Via del Fante 15
Pordenone
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Felice Bet was born in 1928. He had a sister named Maria.

At a young age he joined the partisan movement.

The 16-year-old was arrested on January 7, 1945 and shortly afterwards deported to Mauthausen concentration camp . No details are known about the further fate of young Felice. All we know is that he did not survive the horrors of the concentration camp and National Socialism . His sister Maria Bet is still alive today. She and her daughter Lucia Fabris gave a touching speech at the laying of Felice's Stolperstein in January 2020.

TERZO DRUSIN
TEACHED HERE
BORN 1913
PARTISAN
ARRESTED 02/02/1944
MURDERED 17/12/1944
Via Gian Battista Bertossi 9
Pordenone
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Terzo Drusin , called Alberto, was born on January 28, 1913 in Manzano in the province of Udine .

He studied literature at the Università Cattolica di Milano , the Catholic University in Milan . After graduating, he started teaching at the Technical Institute in Pordenone .

After the armistice of Cassibile on September 8, 1943, Drusin actively joined the freedom movement and fought in the partisan movement Ippolito Nievo , which was mainly active in the valley of the Natisone . Drusin was mainly responsible for the propaganda and its printing.

Terzo Drusin was reported and then arrested by the Nazis. After days of torture, he was murdered on December 17, 1944 and his body was thrown into the Natisone . The disfigured corpse could be identified because Drusin could be recognized by his wooden leg and the mutilations of his left hand.

Because of his courageous and honorable achievements, a school and a street in Pordenone were named after Terzo Drusin. In addition, after his death he was symbolically presented with the gold medal of honor for special military services.

HERE LIVED
FRANCESCO GUGLIELMO FOLLENI
BORN 1925
Partisan
ARRESTED 12/23/1944
deported
MAUTHAUSEN
FATE UNKNOWN
Via Niccolò Tommaseo 8
Pordenone
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Francesco Folleni Guglielmo was born in 1925.

At a young age he joined the partisan movement.

The 19-year-old was arrested on December 23, 1944 and shortly afterwards deported to Mauthausen concentration camp .

No details are known about the further fate of the young Francesco, only that he did not survive the horrors of the concentration camp and National Socialism .

ATTILIO GALLINI
LIVED HERE
BORN 1926
PARTISANE
ARRESTED DECEMBER 1944
DEPORTED
FLOSSENBÜRG, RELEASED
DACHAU DIED July 22,
1945
Piazzale XX Settembre 2
Pordenone
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Attilio Gallini was born in 1926.

At a young age he joined the partisan movement.

In December 1944, the 18-year-old Attilio was arrested and deported to the Flossenbürg concentration camp . A little later he was transferred to the Dachau concentration camp . When the Dachau concentration camp was liberated on April 29, 1945, it also meant the end of months of horror for young Attilio.

On July 22, 1945, a few months after his liberation from the concentration camp, 19-year-old Attilio Gallini died.

HERE LIVED
FRANCO CARLO MARTELLI
BORN 1910
Partisan
ARRESTED 11/25/1944
SHOT 11/27/1944
Piazzale XX Settembre 2
Pordenone
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Franco Carlo Martelli was born in Catania in 1910 (some sources give 1911 as the year of birth).

In 1941 he took part in the war in Slovenia as captain of the Cavalleggeri di Saluzzo regiment . A few days after the armistice on September 8, 1943, Franco Martelli returned to Friuli and devoted himself to organizing the partisan movement. For more than a year he headed the formation Ippolito Nievo , which was subordinate to the 4th Division Osoppo-Friuli .

On November 25, 1944, Franco Martelli was arrested by the Nazis and held under torture until he was finally shot on November 27, 1944. When his chest was riddled with bullets, Franco Martelli shouted Viva l'Italia libera with his last strength , "Long live free Italy!".

Before his death, Franco Martelli had written to Lieutenant von Belcastro in Catanzaro and entrusted him with his four children. Galati adopted the children who have been named Martelli Galati ever since.

Franco Martelli also received the Medaglia d'oro al valor militare , the gold medal of honor for special military services, after his death .

VIRGINIO
MICHELUZ LIVED HERE, BORN IN
1905
ARRESTED 22.11.1944
DEPORTED
FLOSSENBURG, LIBERATED
DACHAU DIED
JUNE 1945
Corso Vittorio Emanuele II 49
Pordenone
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Virginio Micheluz was born on August 2, 1905 in Pordenone .

Virginio had inherited his father's tobacco shop in Corso Vittorio Emanuele II and continued to run it. When he tried to report the theft of a load of cigarettes, the tables were turned and Micheluz was accused of collaborating with the partisans . He was arrested on November 23, 1944 and handed over to the German officials in Pordenone . Micheluz was well known in Pordenone and his arrest shocked the city's residents.

He was then transferred to Udine and from there deported to the Flossenbürg concentration camp on the German-Czech border. On arrival he was registered with matriculation number 40242. A little later, Micheluz was brought to the Dachau concentration camp . When the war ended, he was freed from Dachau and taken to the American hospital that had been established there, where he died less than two months later, on June 10 or 11, 1945.

Virginio Micheluz was buried in the Italian military cemetery in Munich .

HERE LIVED
ESTELLA Stendler born LUGINBUHL
BORN 1875
ARRESTED 04/04/1944
INTERNED
RISIERA DI SAN SABBA
FATE UNKNOWN
Viale Michelangelo Grigoletti 5
Pordenone
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Estella Stendler married Luginbuhl was born in Trieste on February 2, 1875 . She was Jewish and married to Emilio Luginbuhl, the pastor of the Baptist church in Pordenones , which was located at Viale Grigoletti 5 . The couple had two sons, Eros and Sirio.

In old age Estella lived alone. Her husband and son Eros had already died, and their son Sirio had been captured and deported to a concentration camp.

Estella was arrested on April 4, 1944 in Pordenone and was then imprisoned in the Risiera di San Sabba concentration camp in Trieste .

From this point onwards, Estella Stendler Luginbuhl's traces disappear - little is known about her fate, except that she did not survive the Shoah .

Laying data

January 2020: Via del Fante 15; Via Gian Battista Bertossi 9; Via Niccolò Tommaseo 8; Piazza XX Settembre 2; Corso Vittorio Emanuele II 49; Viale Grigoletti 5.

Individual evidence

  1. Messaggero Veneto: [ https://necrologie.messaggeroveneto.gelocal.it/news/83224 ], accessed on July 20, 2020.
  2. ANPI Udine: Terzo Drusin "Alberto": [ http://www.anpiudine.org/terzo-drusin-alberto/ ], accessed on July 20, 2020.
  3. ANPI: Terzo Drusin: [ https://www.anpi.it/donne-e-uomini/1039/terzo-drusin ], accessed on July 20, 2020.
  4. ANPI: Franco Martelli: [ https://www.anpi.it/donne-e-uomini/2113/franco-martelli ], accessed on July 16, 2020.
  5. Dimenticati di Stato: I pordenonesi sepolti nei cimiteri militari italiani in Austria, Germania ePolonia: [ https://dimenticatidistato.com/2017/02/05/i-pordenonesi-sepolti-nei-cimiteri-militari-italiani-in-austria -germania-e-polonia / ], accessed on July 16, 2020.
  6. Messaggero Veneto: Non superò le sofferenze di Dachau [ https://necrologie.messaggeroveneto.gelocal.it/news/100349?refresh_ce ], accessed on July 16, 2020.
  7. CDEC: [ http://digital-library.cdec.it/cdec-web/persone/detail/person-8911/steindler-estella.html Steindler, Estella ], accessed on June 28, 2020.
  8. Riforma: Pietre d'inciampo a Pordenone: [ https://riforma.it/it/articolo/2020/01/20/pietre-dinciampo-pordenone ], accessed on June 28, 2020.