Narciso Sordo

Don Narciso Sordo (born January 15, 1899 in Castello Tesino ; † March 13, 1945 in Gusen II concentration camp ) was an Italian Catholic clergyman who supported partisans of the Resistance and was therefore a victim of National Socialism .

Life

Narciso Sordo spent his childhood in South Tyrol . At the beginning of the First World War , his father, a teacher from Trent, was exiled from Italy. The family was forced to live in Austria and was only allowed to return to their home country after the end of the war. Narciso Sordo learned the German language there. He was ordained a priest and became a catechist in Trento and later prefect of high school students in the archiepiscopal college. He then rose to the position of assistant to the Azione Cattolica . As early as 1935 he made no secret of his aversion to Hitler . In Bolzano he became a cooperator in the Don Bosco working-class district of Bolzano .

After the bombing of Bolzano, he fled to Tesino, where he supported the partisan group Gherlenda, which belonged to the Garibaldi brigade . In October 1944 he was arrested by the National Socialists during a raid, but released a few days later. A month later he was arrested again and held on charges of supporting partisan groups. He has been tortured for more than 20 days, and then on the Bolzano Transit Camp to the Mauthausen concentration camp brought. He arrived there on January 8, 1944. He is said to have supported his fellow prisoners while in captivity. On March 13, 1945, he died in the Gusen II subcamp during an Allied air raid while attempting to get to the camp's only shelter.

From 1946 to 1956 a primary school in Bolzano (today: San Filippo Neri) bore his name. A memorial plaque next to the cremation furnace in Gusen was later dedicated to him. In 2003 a street was named after him in the Bolzano district of Firmian.

literature

ANED: Don Narciso Sordo . In: Irmgard Aschbauer, Andreas Baumgartner, Isabella Girstmair (eds.): Freedom is in fact alone. Resistance to National Socialism for religious reasons. Biographies and contributions to the 2009 International Symposium . Edition Mauthausen, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-902605-17-7 , p. 177-178 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Carla Giacomozzi: sign public remembrance in Bolzano, 1943 - 1945. In: presentation on Memorial Day - Monday, January 21, 2008: Project "history and memory: the Nazi camp of Bolzano". City of Bolzano, accessed on September 28, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Sordo, Narciso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian Catholic clergyman who supported partisans of the Resistance and was therefore a victim of National Socialism
DATE OF BIRTH	January 15, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Castello Tesino
DATE OF DEATH	March 13, 1945
Place of death	Gusen II concentration camp

[präs-1] Carla Giacomozzi: sign public remembrance in Bolzano, 1943 - 1945. In: presentation on Memorial Day - Monday, January 21, 2008: Project "history and memory: the Nazi camp of Bolzano". City of Bolzano, accessed on September 28, 2015 .