List of stumbling blocks in Sicily

A plaque in Sesto San Giovanni also commemorates Liborio Baldanza

The list of stumbling blocks in Sicily lists all stumbling blocks that have been laid in Sicily . The stumbling blocks are usually in front of the last self-chosen place of residence of the victim and remind of the fate of the people who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide by the National Socialists . The Stolpersteine ​​were designed by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig and are usually laid by himself.

The only stumbling block in this region so far was laid on April 7, 2019 in Geraci Siculo .

Stumbling block in Geraci Siculo

The following stumbling block was laid in Geraci Siculo :

image	translation	Location	Name, life
	LIBORIO BALDANZA LIVED HERE BORN IN 1899 ARRESTED 14.3.1944 DEPORTED MAUTHAUSEN MURDERED 3.4.1945 HINTERBRÜHL	Via Vento opposite No. 7	Liborio Baldanza was born on August 2, 1899 in Geraci Siculo. When he was 16, he started working at the Cantieri Navali Riuniti shipyard in Palermo. He also attended the technical evening school. After a year he had to drop out because he was called up for military service. In 1918 he was drafted into the Navy , where he served 34 months. After his time in the Navy, he went to Milan . There he worked in various companies. In 1925 he started to work for the Ercole Marelli metalworking company in Sesto San Giovanni . In 1925, Benito Mussolini banned the Socialist Party and other anti-fascist movements, and a leadership cult emerged. Italy became a dictatorship . Libero began his anti-fascist struggle, met with friends and colleagues who shared his views and organized acts of sabotage. In 1929 he married Anna Perret, who shared his ideals. Seven years later his son Dimitri was born. Baldanza was arrested several times for his anti-fascist activities. In 1931 he lost his job at Ercole Marelli because of this . He was convicted several times by the Special Court and served prison terms in France and Switzerland. In 1935 he started to work for the mechanical engineering company Breda . In 1943 the factories in Sesto San Giovanni went on strike, and factories in Milan and Brianza eventually took part in the strike. Baldanza took part. Baldanza organized further strikes in March 1944, which lasted eight days, hundreds of workers were arrested and deported. Baldanza was also arrested on March 13, 1944. He was first taken to the police headquarters to Milan, then he was, like many Mitstreikenden, in a specially equipped reception center to Bergamo in the Caserma Umberto I brought. From there he was deported to Mauthausen concentration camp on March 17, 1944 , the train arrived there three days later. Liborio Baldanza was subsequently in the Gusen concentration camp , the Schwechat subcamp and the Hinterbrühl subcamp . Liborio Baldanza lost his life on April 3, 1945 on the death march from Hinterbrühl to Gusen concentration camp. In 1974 he received the gold medal "per l'impegnata estrema difesa della libertà sostenuta sino al sublime olocausto della vita" ("for the highest commitment in the defense of freedom up to the utter sacrifice of one's life") from the municipality of Sesto San Giovanni.

Palermo

The following stumbling blocks were laid in Palermo :

image	translation	Location	Name, life
	LIBORIO BALDANZA WORKED HERE BORN IN 1899 ARRESTED IN 1944 SESTO SAN GIOVANNI DEPORTED MAUTHAUSEN MURDERED 3.4.1945 HINTERBRÜHL	Via S. Guli, 75	Liborio Baldanza , see above .
	HERE LIVED MARIA DI GESÙ BORN 1902 ARRESTED 1944 POLA deported AUSCHWITZ FREED	Via Turrisi Colonna, 7	Maria Di Gesú was born in 1902. She was arrested in Pula in 1944 and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp . In the last days of the Nazi regime she was transferred to the Ravensbrück concentration camp . She was able to survive the Nazi regime and was liberated. Thereafter, Maria Di Gesú lived in Palermo until her death.

Laying date

The stumbling block in Geraci Siculo was laid on April 7, 2019.

Web links

• Stolpersteine.eu , Demnig's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Memorials Europe: Bergamo , accessed on December 25, 2019
2. ↑ Gedenkstaetten.at - Room of Names: Liborio Baldanza 1899 - 1945 , accessed on December 25, 2019
3. ↑ Quotidiano di Sicilia : Giornata della memoria, a Palermo tante iniziative per non dimenticare , accessed on March 13, 2020
4. ↑ La Repubblica : Giornata della Memoria, posa di due pietre d'inciampo a Palermo , accessed on March 13, 2020
5. ^ Liberta Sicilia: Palermo. Pietre d'inciampo in memoria di Liborio Baldanza e Maria Di Gesù , accessed on March 13, 2020
6. ↑ Madonie press: Per non dimenticare: la pietra d'inciampo per Liborio Baldanza , accessed on December 25, 2019

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap