List of stumbling blocks in Abruzzo

Stumbling blocks in Lanciano

The list of stumbling blocks in Abruzzo contains the stumbling blocks that were laid by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig in the Italian region of Abruzzo . Stumbling blocks remind of the fate of the people who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide by the National Socialists .

Stumbling blocks are usually from the last self-chosen place of residence of the victim. The first installation in this region took place on January 12, 2012 in L'Aquila . The Italian translation of the term stumbling blocks is: pietre d'inciampo .

L'Aquila

Shortly after the city was founded at the end of the 13th century, Jews settled in L'Aquila. They settled in the Santa Giusta district, between Via Fortebraccio, Via di Costa Due Stelle and Via di Costa Pinciara. There is also a sign "Chiassetto degli Ebrei", residential area of ​​the Jews, removed for a long time, re-attached in 2016. The Jewish community took an active part in the city's social and political life and was recognized as equal by an edict of King Ferdinand I of Naples in 1465 . The Jews of L'Aquila worked in the banking and commercial sectors and ran a hotel within the Jewish residential area. During the Holocaust, the city, and the archdiocese in particular, did everything possible to bring the Jews of Rome to safety, who fled the raids there. Among them were well-known personalities, such as the writer Natalia Ginzburg and her husband Leone , who fled to Pizzoli . The meeting place for the refugees during these years was Amalia Agnelli's bookstore in the Piazza del Palazzo.

The stumbling block for Giulio Della Pergola was the first in Abruzzo. It was relocated in 2012 at the entrance to Palazzo Betti in Piazza del Duomo. During the renovation of the building, the stumbling block was removed. In 2018 it was relocated in the same place.

The following stumbling block was laid in L'Aquila :

image	inscription	address	Name, life
	HERE LIVED GIULIO DELLA PERGOLA JG. 1895 ARRESTED 13/01/1944 DEPORTED AUSCHWITZ MURDERED 06/02/1944	Piazza Duomo, 62	Giulio Della Pergola was born on August 6, 1895 in Florence to Raffaello Della Pergola and Emilia Todeschini. He was married to Ada Coen, for her he had come to L'Aquila. He fought as a volunteer in World War I, for which he was also awarded a silver medal . Pergola was arrested on January 13, 1944 in his own shop, which he ran behind the Piazza del Duomo. He was first held in L'Aquila, then in Milan, and on January 30, 1944, he was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp on Transport No. 6 . Giulio Della Pergola was murdered there on February 6, 1944 by the Nazi regime in a gas chamber. His wife survived by escaping.

Castel Frentano

The following stumbling blocks were laid in Castel Frentano :

image	inscription	address	Name, life
	BETTY ABRAHAMSON LIVED IN CASTEL FRENTANO BORN IN 1892 ARRESTED 1.11.1943 DEPORTED 1944 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED	Piazza Giuliano Crognale about before number 2 0	Betty Abrahamson , also Betti , was born on April 16, 1886 in Karthaus. Her father was Jacob Abrahamson. She was married to Arturo Fuerst . In November 1939 the couple moved to Trieste , where their husband worked as a businessman. Arturo Fuerst was arrested in July 1940 and interned in the Casoli camp. When Betty Abrahmson fell ill and had to undergo an operation, the couple succeeded in getting Arturo to come to Trieste for at least 10 days. He was able to stay there until November 22, 1940, then he was taken to San Vito Chietino and interned there. Betty Abrahamson arrived there on May 16, 1941 - whether voluntarily or involuntarily is not known. Nine days later, both were transferred to the Castel Frentano internment camp and on May 25, 1941, both were transferred to the Castel Frentano internment camp. They were then interned in Guardiagrele . German troops arrived there at the end of October. On November 1, 1943, Arturo Fuerst and his wife were first brought to Chieti by them. Three months later they were transferred to the barracks of L'Aquila, then to the Bagno a Ripoli concentration camp near Florence and from there to the San Vittore prison in Milan. On January 30, 1944, they were deported to Auschwitz in convoy No. 6 from Binario 21 in the Milano Centrale railway station . They arrived there on February 6, 1944. Betty Abrahamson was murdered there by the Nazi regime together with her husband on the day of their arrival.
	IN CASTEL FRENTANO LIVED ADELE Fitzer BORN 1888 ARRESTED 02/11/1943 deported in 1944 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED	Piazza Giuliano Crognale about before number 2 0	Feige Adele Fitzer was born on October 19, 1888 in Stanislau (Stanisławów) , then Austria-Hungary . Her parents were Adolfo Fitzer and Mina Karpfen. She was married to Salo Nagler . The couple had a son, Giacomo (born 1913). In 1920 the family moved to Trieste , where her husband set up a hardware store. Because of racial persecution, the family wanted to emigrate to New York in July 1940 , where their husband's brother, Emanuel Nagler, was already living. The documents were there, but the plans were thwarted by Italy's entry into the war on June 10, 1940. Her husband and son were arrested and detained in camps. Her husband came to the Casoli camp and was transferred to Lanciano at the beginning of April 1941 and later to the Castel Frentano camp. Her son was interned first in Ferramonti di Tarsia and then in Casoli. For the time being, Adele Fitzer remained alone in Trieste until she was allowed to travel to her husband in Castel Frentano in December 1941. From December 6, 1941, her son Giacomo was also interned in Castel Frentano. The family spent two years in this camp. On November 3, 1943, the whole family was transferred to Bagno a Ripoli , a suburb of Florence . From there Feige Adele Fitzer was sent to prison in Milan with her family. On January 20, 1944, she was deported to Auschwitz with her husband and son. Feige Adle Fitzer, her husband and her son were murdered by the Nazi regime, probably immediately after their arrival on February 6, 1944.
	IN CASTEL FRENTANO LIVED ARTURO FUERST BORN 1886 ARRESTED 01/11/1943 deported in 1944 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED	Piazza Giuliano Crognale about before number 2 0	Arturo Fuerst was born the son of Magnus Fuerst on January 6, 1886 in Danzig . He had several brothers. During the First World War he served as a soldier in the German Army and was awarded for it. Fuerst was married to Betty Abrahamson . In November 1939 the couple moved to Trieste , where Arturo Fuerst worked as a businessman. He only had a residence permit for foreigners, which had to be renewed every 6 months. On July 10, 1940 he was arrested and transferred to the Casoli internment camp in Abruzzo . His wife tried to help him, sent requests to the police headquarters of Trieste and Casoli for release due to his state of health. Fuerst added his own to these letters, pointing out that he could hope for a visa for America. When his wife became seriously ill and had to undergo an operation, he was able to go to Trieste for 10 days, with the requirement to report to the local police station. From there he was transferred to San Vito Chietino after the deadline and was interned there from November 23, 1940. Six months later, his wife arrived there too. On May 25, 1941, both were transferred to the internment camp in Castel Frentano. They were then interned in Guardiagrele . German troops arrived there at the end of October. On November 1, 1943, Arturo Fuerst and his wife were first brought to Chieti by them. Three months later they were transferred to the barracks of L'Aquila, then to the Bagno a Ripoli concentration camp near Florence and from there to the San Vittore prison in Milan. On January 30, 1944, they were arrested in convoy No. 6 Deported from Binario 21 in the Milano Centrale railway station to Auschwitz. They arrived there on February 6, 1944. Arturo Fuerst was murdered there on the day of his arrival, together with his wife, by the Nazi regime.
	GIACOMO NAGLER LIVED IN CASTEL FRENTANO BORN IN 1913 ARRESTED 2.11.1943 DEPORTED 1944 MURDERED AUSCHWITZ	Piazza Giuliano Crognale about before number 2 0	Giacomo Nagler , also Jakob Nagler, was born on July 19, 1913 in Stanislau (Stanisławów) , then Austria-Hungary . His parents were Salo Nagler and Adele Fitzer . In 1920 the family moved to Trieste , where his father set up a hardware store. He was called Kuby by his family and friends . He also worked as a businessman. He was engaged to Rita Rosani , a teacher, also a Jew, who joined the partisans and took part in the armed struggle against the Nazi regime. Due to racial persecution, the family wanted to emigrate to New York in July 1940 , where his uncle Emanuel Nagler was already living. Italy's entry into the war on June 10, 1940 thwarted these plans. Giacomo Nagler was arrested on June 30, 1940 and first interned in the Ferramonti di Tarsia internment camp. From there he was taken to the Casoli camp and on December 6, 1941, to Castel Frentano, where his parents were already. The whole family was transferred to Bagno a Ripoli , a suburb of Florence , on November 3, 1943 . Nagler was then interned with his family in Milan prison. On January 20, 1944, he and his parents were deported to Auschwitz. Giacomo Nagler and his parents were murdered by the Nazi regime, probably immediately after their arrival on February 6, 1944. Rita Rosani was captured and shot by German troops on September 17, 1944. She was posthumously awarded the Medaglia d'oro al valor militare. His glasses were found in Castel Frentano sixty years after his deportation.
	SALO NAGLER LIVED IN CASTEL FRENTANO BORN IN 1886 ARRESTED 2.11.1943 DEPORTED 1944 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED	Piazza Giuliano Crognale about before number 2 0	Salo Nagler was born in Sloboda on March 23, 1886. His parents were Jakob Nagler and Ruzler Genesi. He was married to Adele Fitzer . The couple had at least one son, Giacomo , born in 1913. In 1920 the family moved to Trieste , where Salo Nagler set up a hardware store. Because of racial persecution, the family wanted to emigrate to New York in July 1940 , where his brother Emanuel Nagler was already living. The documents were there, but the plans were thwarted by Italy's entry into the war on June 10, 1940. Salo Nagler was arrested, interned in the Casoli camp and transferred to Lanciano at the beginning of April 1941 , later to the Castel Frentano camp. His son was arrested too, he was first interned in Ferramonti di Tarsia, then in Casoli, and arrived in Castel Frentano on December 6, 1941. His wife was also allowed to travel there. The whole family spent two years in this camp. They were transferred to Bagno a Ripoli , a suburb of Florence , on November 3, 1943 . Nagler was then interned with his family in Milan prison. On January 20, 1944, he was deported to Auschwitz with his wife and son. Salo Nagler, his wife and son were murdered by the Nazi regime, probably immediately after their arrival on February 6, 1944.

Chieti

The following stumbling block was laid in Chieti :

image	inscription	address	Name, life
	HERE TAUGHT GIULIO ALDO OBERNDORFER JG. 1885 ARRESTED 11.6.1940 MILAN INTERNED IN CAMP LANCIANO DEAD 14.9.1941	Via Umberto Ricci, 22	Aldo Oberdorfer was born in Trieste in 1885 . He became a teacher, translator, literary critic, essayist and socialist. In 1913 he published an essay on Michelangelo Buonarroti , in 1933 a book on Richard Wagner and in 1935 a book on Ludwig II of Bavaria . This volume was also published in French, as was his publication of Verdi's letters . He also translated works by Hölderlin, Kleist and Nietzsche ( Ecce homo ). He was secretary at the Università Popolare Trieste , from 1915 he was a professor at the Technical Institute of Chieti. Due to the racial laws of 1938 , he had to give up teaching. He was arrested in Milan on June 11, 1940 and deported to the Lanciano concentration camp, where he died on September 14, 1941. The stumbling block for him was laid in front of his former workplace, the Istituto Tecnico "Galiani - de Sterlich" . A street in Trieste is named after him.

Lanciano

The first stumbling blocks in Lanciano were laid on the initiative of the Galileo High School in Lanciano. It was the first school in Abruzzo to initiate such a project. The project was coordinated by the philosophy professor Luciano Biondi. The student Alessia Torosantucci presented the story of the Grauer family.

Mario Pupillo, the mayor of Lanciano , underlined during the award ceremony: "Lanciano has always been committed to the spirit of democracy and memory in which our citizens opposed the Nazi fascists, as the second insurgent city after Naples. We are a noble city, who fought against the dictatorship. "

The following stumbling blocks were laid in Lanciano :

image	inscription	address	Name, life
	MARCO GRAUER BORN 1940 ARRESTED October 31, 1943 DEPORTED 1944 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED 6.2.1944	Largo San Giovanni near the Torre San Giovanni	Marco Grauer was born on February 6, 1940 in Trieste . He was the son of Samuel Grauer and Rosa Jordan. He had a younger brother, Tito. The whole family was arrested on October 31, 1943 and subsequently interned in various camps: in Casoli, Orsogna, Chieti, L'Aquila, Florence and Milan. On January 30, 1944, Marco Grauer, his parents and his brother were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in convoy No. 6 . The train left Milan from the underground binario 21 and arrived at the concentration camp on February 6, 1944. The two brothers, four-year-old Marco and two-year-old Tito, were murdered in the gas chamber immediately upon arrival. This happened on his fourth birthday. His parents were also murdered by the Nazi regime as part of the Shoah .
	ROSA GRAUER JORDAN BORN 1915 ARRESTED 31.10.1943 DEPORTED 1944 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED	Largo San Giovanni near the Torre San Giovanni	Rosa Grauer Jordan was born on June 9, 1915 in Königsberg , East Prussia . She was the daughter of Jakob Jordan. She was married to Samuel Grauer, a carpenter. The couple had two sons, Marco (1940) and Tito (1942). Rosa Grauer was arrested in Lanciano in November 1943 and deported together with her husband and sons to the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 30, 1944 in convoy No. 6 . She did not survive the Shoah . Her two children, then four and two years old, and her husband were also murdered by the Nazi regime.
	SAMUEL GRAUER BORN IN 1906 ARRESTED 31.10.1943 DEPORTED 1944 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED	Largo San Giovanni near the Torre San Giovanni	Samuel Grauer was born on October 29, 1906 in Jarosław , then Austria-Hungary , now Poland , as the son of Markus Grauer and Rachel, née Kammermann. He became a carpenter and married Rosa Jordan, a German. The couple had two sons, Marco (1940) and Tito (1942). The whole family was arrested on October 31, 1943 and subsequently deported from camp to camp to Casoli, Orsogna, Chieti, L'Aquila, Florence and Milan. On January 30, 1944, Samuel Grauer, his wife and sons were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in convoy No. 6 . None of them survived the Shoah .
	TITO GRAUER BORN IN 1942 ARRESTED October 31, 1943 DEPORTED 1944 AUSCHWITZ MURDERED 6.2.1944	Largo San Giovanni near the Torre San Giovanni	Tito Grauer was born on February 4th 1942 in Lanciano Hospital. He was the son of Samuel Grauer and Rosa Jordan. He had an older brother, Marco. The whole family was arrested on October 31, 1943 and subsequently deported from camp to camp to Casoli, Orsogna, Chieti, L'Aquila, Florence and Milan. On January 30, 1944, Tito Grauer, his parents and his brother were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in convoy No. 6 . The train left Milan from the underground binario 21 and arrived at the concentration camp on February 6, 1944. The two brothers, two-year-old Tito and four-year-old Marco, were murdered in the gas chamber immediately upon arrival. This happened two days after his second birthday. His parents did not survive the Shoah either. The circumstances of death are not known.

Teramo

The following stumbling block was laid in Teramo :

image	inscription	address	Name, life
	ALBERTO PEPE LIVED HERE BORN 1910 MILITARY PRISONER 9/15/1943 WIETZENDORF MURDERED 4/4/1945 UNDERLÜSS	Viale Cavour, 2nd floor	Alberto Pepe was born on September 6, 1910 in Teramo to Camillo Pepe (1874-1929) and Anna Bellomo (1872-1969) from San Vito Chietino . Pepe had two sisters: Letizia (1905–1983) and Marietta (1908–1997). His father was a primary school teacher, surveyor and officer, fought in World War I and was injured in Podgora . Returning home from the war as an invalid, he joined the socialists and openly turned against the fascists and all warmongers. He lost his job, led open arguments with the black shirts and was threatened with massive threats. In 1929, Camillo Pepe committed suicide. In his suicide note, he accused the mayor of complicity. His funeral turned out to be a formidable demonstration of resistance to fascism. His son Alberto Pepe graduated from the Istituto Tecnico V. Comi and found a job as a technician at the Associazione Provinciale degli Agricoltori. He was very athletic, an avid mountaineer and skier. He worked as a goalkeeper in the local soccer club . He married Rosa Polidori. The couple had two daughters, Anna (1941–2012) and Luisa (1943–1944), who died as an infant. In the Second World War he had to enter. When he was on leave from the front in July 1943, friends tried to convince him to go into hiding and join the armed resistance. He told his wife that he could not abandon his comrades in Dubrovnik . He returned to the troops and was arrested by German forces in Dubrovnik on September 15, 1943 after the Cassabile armistice. He was imprisoned in the Deblin, Lathen, Wesurve and Wietzendorf concentration camps and finally deported to the Unterlüß subcamp , the third subcamp of Bergen-Belsen. He died there after torture on April 4, 1945, after he had refused to work with the Germans in view of the impending demise of the Nazi regime. During his imprisonment he wrote a diary which could be brought to his wife. The diary was published by the Istituto Abruzzese per la Storia d'Italia dal fascismo alla resistenza . A street in Teramo was named after him, and a plaque also commemorates him.

Laying data

The stumbling blocks in these regions were laid by Gunter Demnig personally on the following days:

• January 12, 2012: L'Aquila
• January 12, 2016: Chieti and Teramo
• January 16, 2019: Lanciano

Web links

Commons : Stumbling Blocks in Abruzzo  - Collection of Images

• Stolpersteine.eu , Demnig's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} abruzzoweb: L'AQUILA: NUOVA TARGA PER CHIASSETTO DEGLI EBREI GRAZIE A JEMO 'NNANZI , accessed on December 29, 2019
2. ↑ abruzzo24ore: Confalonieri: trasferiti in segreto all'Aquila tutti gli ebrei sfuggiti alla retata del ghetto , accessed on December 29, 2019
3. ↑ News Town: L'Aquila: riposizionata la 'pietra d'inciampo' dedicata a Guido Della Pergola , 29 December 2018
4. ↑ abruzzoweb: L'AQUILA: PIETRA D'INCIAMPO IN RICORDO DEL DEPORTATO DELLA PERGOLA , accessed on December 29, 2019
5. ↑ Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea : Della Pergola, Giulio , accessed on December 29, 2019 (with a portrait)
6. ↑ ControParola: Since L'Aquila ad Auschwitz. La storia di Giulio della Pergola by Raffaella De Nicola, ControParola, January 11, 2017, accessed on December 29, 2019.
7. ↑ Elisabetta Profico: L'Abruzzo di Fronte alle leggi razziali (1938-1945) in Trimestre 32, Northwestern University 1999, p. 273
8. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Il Cannochiale: Stolpersteine: intervento di Giulia D'Amico , January 10, 2020, accessed on March 1, 2020
9. ↑ CDEC Digital Library : Abrahamson, Betti , accessed March 1, 2020
10. ↑ ^{a b c} Campo Casoli: FONDO NAGLER , accessed on March 1, 2020 (with numerous documents and photographs of the family)
11. ↑ CDEC Digital Library: Fitzer, Feige Adele , accessed on March 1, 2020
12. ↑ CDEC Digital Library: Fuerst, Arturo , accessed on March 11, 2020
13. ↑ Campo Casoli: Arturo Fuerst: dalla trincea della Grande Guerra all'internamento fascista nel campo di Casoli con il triste epilogo ad Auschwitz insieme alla moglie Betty , accessed on March 1, 2020
14. ↑ CDEC Digital Library: Nagler, Giacomo , accessed on March 12, 2020 (with a portrait of Giacomo Nagler)
15. ↑ Memorials Europe : Rosani, Rita (1920-1944) , accessed on March 12, 2020
16. ↑ Livio Isaak Sirovich: "Non era una donna, era un bandito" , Rita Rosani, una ragazza in guerra, Cierre Edizioni 2014, ISBN 978-88-8314-765-4 .
17. ↑ Storia e Cultura della Città di Casoli: I Nagler ei 50 ebrei stranieri deportati da Trieste a Casoli , accessed on March 12, 2020
18. ↑ CDEC Digital Library: Nagler, Salo , accessed on March 12, 2020
19. ↑ Chieti Today: Shoah, il "Galiani" ricorda le vittime con la posa delle "pietre d'inciampo" , accessed on December 29, 2019
20. ↑ Bibliothèque nationale de France : Aldo Oberdorfer (1885-1941) , accessed on December 29, 2019
21. ↑ Il Centro: Quel docente simbolo di libertà , accessed on December 29, 2019
22. ↑ UNIVERSITÀ POPOLARE DI TRIESTE: Profili biografici dei Segretari , accessed on December 29, 2019
23. ↑ Iris Plack: Indirect Translations: France as a Mediator of German Literature in Italy, Francke.Verlag, Tübingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-7720-8525-3 , p. 391
24. ↑ AbruzzoLive.tv : Lanciano. Per non dimenticare ... Ecco le pietre d'inciampo per ricordare la famiglia Grauer , report by Walter Berghella, January 16, 2019
25. ↑ ^{a b c} Abruzzo Web: GIORNO DELLA MEMORIA: LANCIANO, POSTE 4 PIETRE D'INCIAMPO , January 16, 2019, accessed on December 29, 2019
26. ↑ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names : MARCO GRAUER , based on an entry in the CDEC, accessed on December 29, 2019
27. ↑ Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea : Grauer, Marco , accessed on December 29, 2019
28. ↑ Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea: Jordan, Rosa , accessed on December 31, 2019
29. ↑ Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea: Grauer, Samuel , accessed on December 31, 2019
30. ↑ Centro di documentazione ebraica contemporanea: Grauer, Tito , accessed on December 31, 2019
31. ↑ Comune di Teramo: Alberto Pepe , accessed on December 31, 2019
32. ↑ storieabruzzesi: Alberto Pepe , accessed on December 31, 2019
33. ↑ Comune L'Aquila: "Pietre d'Inciampo" all'Aquila per ricordare i deportati , accessed on January 1, 2020
34. ↑ Comune Teramo: Anche Teramo nel circuito storico-artistico delle “pietre d'inciampo” , accessed on January 1, 2020

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