List of stumbling blocks in the provinces of Lucca and Pisa

Stumbling blocks in Pisa, 2017

The list of stumbling blocks in the provinces of Lucca and Pisa contains the stumbling blocks in the Italian provinces of Lucca and Pisa , both located in Tuscany , which commemorate the fate of the people from this region who were murdered, deported, expelled or committed suicide by the National Socialists have been driven. The stumbling blocks were laid by Gunter Demnig . As a rule, they are in front of the victim's last self-chosen place of residence. Its name is in Italian: Pietre d'inciampo .

The first installation in these provinces took place on January 13, 2017 in Pisa.

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

Lucca

Stumbling block	translation	Place of installation	Name, life
	HERE LIVED ELIA SIMONI BORN 1919 MILITARY INTERN ARRESTED 1944 RELEASED	Sant'Anna, Via dei Guami	Elia Simoni was born in Fagnano in 1919. He was called up for military service in 1938 and served as a pilot in the Regia Aeronautica from 1939 . After the Armistice of Cassibile in September 1943, he refused to take the oath on Mussolini and the Republic of Salò . He was captured by the German army in 1944 and deported to a concentration camp in eastern Germany. He was one of approximately 800,000 IMI (Italian Military Internees) who refused to fight for the Axis powers after the Cassibile Armistice. He remained locked in camps until the end of the war and had to do forced labor. He was liberated by the Allies in 1945. When he returned home, he spoke of hunger and cold, forced labor and imprisonment. He worked as a butcher, raised a family and attended many schools as a contemporary witness to tell his story. He died in 2015. In 2017, the Lucca Prefecture awarded family members a Medal of Honor in memory of Elia Simoni.

Pisa

Stumbling block	translation	Place of installation	Name, life
	HERE LIVED VALENTINA DELLA SETE BORN 1878 ARRESTED 04/21/1944 deported AUSCHWITZ MURDERED 23/05/1944	Piazza S. Paolo all'Orto 19	Valentina Della Seta
	ELDA DI NOLA LIVED HERE BORN IN 1901 ARRESTED 21.4.1944 DEPORTED MURDERED	Piazza S. Paolo all'Orto 19	Elda Di Nola
	HERE LIVED MARIO roccas BORN 1900 ARRESTED 04/21/1944 deported AUSCHWITZ MURDERED 11/26/1944 ESSLINGEN	Piazza S. Paolo all'Orto 19	Mario Roccas
	RENZO ROCCAS LIVED HERE BORN 1927 ARRESTED 21.4.1944 DEPORTED AUSCHWITZ MURDERED 31.10.1944	Piazza S. Paolo all'Orto 19	Renzo Roccas

Laying data

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

• January 13, 2017: Pisa
• January 18, 2019: Lucca

Web links

Commons : Stumbling Blocks in Lucca  - Collection of Images

Commons : Stumbling Blocks in Pisa  - Collection of Images

• stolpersteine.eu , Demnig's website
• Tuscany on gedenkorte-europa.eu, the homepage of Gedenkorte Europa 1939–1945 , accessed on September 18, 2017
• PIETRE D'INCIAMPO - stumbling blocks. ( Memento from October 21, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) Lagerpuntoit; Retrieved April 19, 2016

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michele Brancale: Quattro pietre d'inciampo e una memoria viva . L'ora di Religione; accessed on September 20, 2017
2. ↑ Pietre di inciampo . Toscana Notes , January 19, 2017

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