List of stumbling blocks in the province of Grosseto

Stumbling blocks in Grosseto

The list of stumbling blocks in the province of Grosseto contains the stumbling blocks that were laid by the Cologne artist Gunter Demnig in the province of Grosseto . This province is located in the Italian region of Tuscany . Stumbling blocks remind of the fate of the people who were murdered, deported, expelled or driven to suicide by the National Socialists . As a rule, they are in front of the victim's last self-chosen residence, but in Grosseto in front of the town hall and the cathedral.

The first relocations in this province took place on January 13, 2017 in Grosseto. The Italian translation of the term stumbling blocks is: Pietre d'inciampo .

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

Grosseto

image	translation	Location	Name, biography
	ALBO BELLUCCI JG LIVED IN GROSSETO . IN 1907 ARRESTED 1943 DEPORTED 1944 GUSEN MURDERED April 22, 1945	Piazza del Duomo Grosseto	Albo Bellucci was born in Grosseto , in the Tuscany region, in 1907 . Driven by Republican views, Bellucci joined his city's communist movements as a young adult in 1935. When in September 1936 a page of the newspaper L'Intransigeant with revolutionary content was attached to a house wall in Grosseto , the young anti-fascist Bellucci was immediately suspected. Although he was able to prove his innocence thanks to a written report, he was stopped and warned by the authorities on April 1, 1937. This warning eventually led to his losing his job at the Grosseto court . At the time, citizens who revolted against the government faced not only financial distress from loss of employment, but also direct physical violence. Albo Bellucci was not spared either and was terribly beaten up over the coming months, up to October 1937, according to his communist comrade Aristeo Banchi. During the war, in 1941, Albo Bellucci and Enrico Orlandini helped Aristeo Banchi to strengthen ties within the Communist Party and organized several meetings for this purpose. However, a spy sneaked in and had the group exposed. A complaint was then made. Bellucci and three of his comrades were arrested on February 4, 1942 and exiled to a small village in Basilicata for a year on March 27, 1942 . When Bellucci was released on parole on October 31 of the same year, he remained true to his anti-fascist convictions despite everything. After the armistice of September 8, 1943, Albo Bellucci attended the first meetings of the Provincial Military Committee. These took place in the Villa Mazzoncini in Via Mazzini in Grosseto . This association paved the way for the resistance movement of the Comitato Provinciale di Liberazione Nazionale and was supposed to coordinate the first actions of the partisans in the province. During a raid on Tullio Mazzoncini's Campospillo estate in the municipality of Magliano in Toscana on November 26, 1943 , the movement was crushed by the Guardia Nazionale Repubblicana . Albo Bellucci was arrested again. This time together with Ultimino Magini in Paganico . All attempts of his comrades to free him failed. Albo Bellucci was together with Tullio Mazzoncini and Giuseppe Scopetani first in prison in Siena , then in that Parmas . At the beginning of 1944 the three anti-fascists were deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp . Tullio Mazzoncini was the only one of the three to survive the concentration camp; Albo Bellucci died on April 22, 1945 in Gusen , one of the most terrible subcamps in Mauthausen . Mazzoncini spent the rest of his life looking for information and traces of his two friends.
	ITALO RAGNI JG LIVED IN GROSSETO . 1900 ARRESTED 1939 DEPORTED GUSEN MURDERED 6.5.1941 MAUTHAUSEN	Piazza del Duomo Grosseto	Italo Ragni was born on June 4th, 1900 in Campagnatico in the province of Grosseto . His mother, Itala Rossi, died at birth, his father, Ciro Ragni, in 1903. The orphaned Italo grew up with his aunt Rosa Ragni Bacci in Grosseto . After attending primary school, Italo worked in agriculture and construction. At a young age Italo joined the anarchist groups Grossetos and the Circolo libertario Germinal under the direction of Firmo Biagetti, Marcuccio Marcucci, Angiolino Moretti and Egisto Serni. Italo took part in the strike on December 4, 1919 and in the occupation of the Grosseto train station , and was then reported. On September 27, 1923, Italo Ragni was reported as "dangerous" because he sought the company of revolutionaries and was considered to be violent. In April 1924, Italo Ragni moved to Lyon . There he took part in the anarchist attacks against the local fascists and their secretary Mario Scribanti on May 26, 1927. Ragni was arrested along with some of his comrades, but could never be prosecuted for his actions due to lack of evidence and was released on August 5th. Italo Ragni had already been known in Lyon beforehand and was carefully examined. On October 24, 1927, Italo Ragni was expelled from France and taken to the Belgian border. In November 1927, the Prefect of Grosseto informed the Minister of the Interior that Italo Ragni was a threat. As a result, his name was recorded in the border registers and he was no longer issued a valid passport. Italo Ragni lived from then on in Liège, Belgium, probably until January 1929 . Then he moved to Seraing with Umberto Malfatti . In April 1929 he went to Brussels , where, together with Umberto Malfatti and Camillo Berneri, he was responsible for the distribution of the anarchist newspaper Bandiera nera . On July 29, 1929, he was expelled from Belgium for his revolutionary propaganda and brought to the German border. The Italian police chief Arturo Bocchini, who had been watching Italo Ragni's steps all the time, thereupon ordered Ragni's immediate arrest if he returned home. He also made sure that Ragni was included in the Bollettino delle ricerche , a register of wanted persons. After a short stay in Germany , Ragni returned to France and settled in Villeurbanne . There he also took part in meetings again from the summer of 1931. In the autumn of 1931, the Italian Ministry of the Interior imputed Ragni, Umberto Malfatti and other comrades to a planned bomb attack on Benito Mussolini . Italo Ragni was then considered a terrorist and assassin in Italy . Italo Ragni continued to participate in various meetings and gatherings in Lyon and Villeurbanne in part and was, in turn, on April 16, 1932, despite great care in Lyon arrested. Since he had violated the deportation decree that had been imposed on him years earlier, he was again expelled from France in autumn 1933 and taken to the Spanish border. A little later he returned illegally to Paris and from the beginning of 1934 spread libertarian propaganda in Belgium . He also took part in some other events, such as B. the memorial service for the victims of fascism in Paris and Vienna (1935) and the assembly of the CGT , also in Paris (1935). At the meeting of the CGT in Paris new deportation decrees were to be discussed and Italo Ragni and some comrades volunteered to be arrested and to go on hunger strike in order to draw attention to the fate of the exiles who were forced to do so to live along the borders because they were expelled from several countries. He continued to take part in various events such as B. in Clamart and Saint-Cloud . In June 1935 he was irrevocably expelled from France , but returned to Paris on March 10, 1936 with Egidio Fossi and many others to lay out the anarchist Giovanni Sabbatici . Further meetings followed: together with Marzocchi and Fantozzi, he attended the Carlo Rosselli conference on March 15, 1936; on June 26th he attended a meeting on the right of asylum; on July 2 he attended the lecture Auro d'Arcolas (pseudonym of the anarchist journalist Tintino Persio Rasis). On August 19, 1936, Italo Ragni set out for Spain , joined the Colonna Italiana and fought alongside them on August 28 in the Battle of Monte Pelado and on November 22 in Almudevar . In May 1937 he was injured by an animal and he returned to France , where he was arrested by the French authorities on May 25, 1938. He was then imprisoned for a few months and then taken back to the Belgian border. This time, too, he returned illegally to Paris a few days later . In 1939 his name was placed on the list of wanted anti-fascists who had to be expelled from the transalpine area. There is a variety of information about Italo Ragni's arrest: according to a document from June 1939, which was kept in the files of the CPC (Code de procédure civile) (see Civil Procedure Law (France) ), Italo Ragni was arrested in Paris and in February or March 1939 imprisoned him with Egidio Fossi and Umberto Marzocchi in a French internment camp . However, an information letter from the Interior Ministry dated July 1939 states that he was arrested in early June 1939. In any case, Italo Ragni was brought to Camp de Gurs on June 27, 1939 . No information is available on the length of his detention. The Nazis probably deported him from there to Mauthausen concentration camp . Other theories suggest that he fell into the hands of the Nazis after joining the Maquis , or - according to another undetectable theory - after volunteering for the French military or the Légion étrangère . Italo Ragni died on May 6, 1941 in Mauthausen concentration camp . The fascist consulate in Paris did not inform his superiors of his death until July 31, 1941. On November 10, 1941, the police chief Grossetos applied to the police headquarters of Milan and Rome to remove Ragni from the list of the provincial revolutionaries living abroad.
	GIUSEPPE SCOPETANI JG LIVED IN GROSSETO . IN 1904 ARRESTED 1943 DEPORTED 1944 GUSEN MURDERED 2/18/1945	Piazza del Duomo Grosseto	Giuseppe Scopetani was born on November 20, 1904 in Grosseto . His parents were Isola Pomarani and Italo Scopetani and he had nine siblings. The family originally came from the province of Arezzo . The political orientation of the family was republican and after Giuseppe, like his brother Bruno, had been a mazziniano (supporter of Giuseppe Mazzini's ideas ) for a few years , he joined the communist party. In Grosseto he met Gastone Barbini and also maintained a lively correspondence with Raffaello Bellucci, who lives in Nice . According to Barbini, Scopetani was convinced that only war would overthrow the fascist regime and was disappointed when the news of the signing of the Munich Agreement was received . Giuseppe Scopetani worked first as a printer, then as an insurance clerk in the Belluccis company in Via Vinzaglio in Grosseto . As an insurance agent, he began taking illegal propaganda to his customers. In 1943 he, Raffaello and Albo Bellucci, Tullio Mazzoncini and Antonio Meocci took part in a meeting of the Grosseto Military Committee . The meetings took place first in Mazzoncini's house in Grosseto , and later, when the bombing increased, on his estate at Campospillo in Magliano . Thanks to his work experience as a printer, Scopetani was able to develop a hectograph with the help of which anti-fascist propaganda could be produced and distributed. After a spy reported and the subsequent raid in Campospillo on November 26, 1943, an arrest warrant was issued against the members of the group. While Albo Bellucci and Tullio Mazzoncini had already been arrested, Giuseppe Scopetani stayed with his wife and two-year-old son with his in-laws in Scansano . There he was finally invited to the station. Instead of taking the opportunity to flee immediately after receiving the letter of formal notice, he went to the barracks and was immediately arrested. He was then imprisoned first in prison in Siena , then in that Parmas . When Parma's prison was bombed, most of the prisoners escaped. Giuseppe Scopetani and Albo Bellucci tried to free the injured from the rubble and were caught by the German police and sentenced to deportation . Giuseppe Scopetani arrived at Mauthausen concentration camp between June 24 and 27, 1944 and was registered with the matriculation number 76572. On arrival he stated that he was a printer by trade. After a short time he was taken to the Redl-Zipf subcamp and then to the Gusen concentration camp , both in Austria . Giuseppe Scopetani was murdered on February 18, 1945 in Gusen concentration camp . According to a comrade's story, Giuseppe Scopetani had run out of matches for his cigarettes. In search of new ones, he went to another part of the camp. Unfortunately for him, the Nazis had planned the murder of all prisoners in that part of the camp for that day. By an unfortunate coincidence, Giuseppe was also murdered along with the other prisoners.

Magliano in Toscana

Stumbling block	translation	Location	Name, life
	HERE WAS ARRESTED on 11/26/1943 TULLIO Mazzoncini BORN 1906 deported in 1944 MAUTHAUSEN FREED	Campospillo Magliano in Toscana	Tullio Mazzoncini was born in Viareggio in 1907 . He was a staunch anti-fascist and often exchanged views with his comrades of the same age who had the same political views as himself. After the armistice on September 8, 1943, he first took part in the meetings of the provincial military committee and even made his house in Grosseto , the Villa Mazzoncini in Via Mazzini, available as a venue. Little by little it became more and more dangerous to gather inside the village. On the one hand due to the more frequent bombing attacks, on the other hand the risk of being caught increased because denouncing chatter and rumors kept making the rounds. Therefore, the meetings were moved to the Campospillo estate , in the municipality of Magliano in Toscana , which was also owned by the Mazzoncini family. When Campospillo and the illegal activities and meetings held there were betrayed by a spy, the Guardia Nazionale Repubblicana searched the entire property on November 26, 1943 and found fateful items such as B. some weapons and the hectograph that was used to print anti-fascist propaganda papers. Tullio Mazzoncini was arrested immediately, while his comrade Antonio Meocci managed to escape. Other members of the group, such as Albo Bellucci and Giuseppe Scopetani, were also arrested. Together with Bellucci and Scopetani, Tullio Mazzoncini was first in prison in Parma , then in that of Siena . At the beginning of 1944 (probably on January 23 or 24, 1944) they were brought to the Mauthausen camp, whose horror Tullio Mazzoncini was the only one of the three who survived. After his release, Tullio Mazzoncini spent the rest of his life looking for information about the imprisonment and murder of his two comrades in the camp.

Laying data

The stumbling blocks in the province of Grosseto were laid by Gunter Demnig personally on the following days:

• January 13, 2017: Grosseto
• January 9, 2018: Magliano in Toscana

Web links

Commons : Stolpersteine ​​in Grosseto  - Collection of images

Commons : Stolpersteine ​​in Magliano in Toscana  - Collection of images

• Stolpersteine.eu , Demnig's website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GrossetoContemporanea: [1] , Albo Bellucci: la morte di un antifascista grossetano nel lager di Mauthausen , Marco Grilli, accessed on May 29, 2020.
2. ↑ Biblioteca Franco Serantini: Dictionnaire biografico online degli Italiani anarchici: Ragni, Italo , accessed on May 30, 2020th
3. ↑ Cantieri della memoria: Italo Ragni , first published by Ilaria Cansella on the Isgrec page: [2] in honor of the Tuscan anti-fascist volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, accessed on May 29, 2020.
4. ↑ Cantieri della memoria: Giuseppe Scopetani , accessed on May 29, 2020.
5. ↑ Cantieri della memoria: [3] , Il bassorilievo di Tolomeo Faccendi per Tullio Mazzoncini, accessed on June 20, 2020.
6. ↑ Cantieri della memoria: [4] , Campospillo, accessed June 20, 2020.
7. ↑ Gunter Demnig installa le pietre d'inciampo a Grosseto / FOTO , accessed on August 13, 2017

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