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1. progetto deportazioni 1 I nonni ricordano TESTIMONIANZE SULLA DEPORTAZIONE

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3. progetto deportazioni 3 Our projects Historiography about the Twentieth Century has taught us to estimate in a different way direct depositions, which are usually given by grandparents to their grandsons, for example during the common Sunday lunch with the family. Nevertheless these direct evidences come from people who have lived the main events of the period analysed by professional historians. Usually History teachers don�t use that kind of proofs because they can generate distorted visions of reality. But the history of the Twentieth Century can�t leave aside from accounts made by persons who are still living and evoke the painful events they lived. The students who have done this work succeeded in not considering words told them by their parents as the reality of the concentration camps in Africa and Europe. Under the instructions of teachers Filippo Ferrari and Rossella Russo, they registered and wrote down depositions of survivors of the camps, by using a precise order of questions, and then they gave documentation (if possible), which confirmed the events and the accuracy of the proofs. So here we have both historical documents and true tales about real lives of this people.

4. progetto deportazioni 4 Domenico Giannunzio Mr Domenico Giannunzio was born in Villa Santa Lucia degli Abruzzi, a small village in the province of L�Aquila, on 27th September 1923. He served in the army when he was 19 starting on 5th January 1943 and he applied to become part of the legion of Carabinieri. He was sent to Dubrovnik, Balcan area in Croatia, by ship. He stayed in Dubrovnik with the �366 SEZIONE CARABINIERI MOTORIZZATA�. On 8th September 1943 Italy asked for an armistice and Dubrovnik was occupied by German soldiers. He began a period of detention first in the XVII Lager of KAISERSTEINBRUK, then he was brought to Grillemberg town. Here he had to do forced works like working at big bloks of duralumin in the �Berndorfer METALWAREN FABRIK A. Krupp�, were he stayed till 2nd April 1945, the day after Easter of that year. When the arrival of the Russian soldiers was announced, he decided not to go away immediately but to wait for the Russian soldiers. They adviced him and some of prisoners to go towards Vienna Neustadt. Then he went to Bratislava on foot, where he arrived on 6th August and stayed there till 2nd September 1945. So he left again and he returned to Italy after a long journey (much of this by train) across central Europe on 8th September 1945.

5. progetto deportazioni 5 Benvenuto Mazzocchi Mr Benvenuto Mazzocchi was born on 14thDecember 1922 and he is Ludovico�s the grandfather, student at Liceo Classico. Mr Mazzocchi , interviewed by his grandson , said he was rushed to arms in the alpine artillery and he went on war in 1942. His division was sent to Montenegro as troop of occupation.They often had to do mopping up because of partisan actions.The Germans , instead of doing moppings up to search the offender, chose 30 or 40 civilians among the poulation and they shot them.This happened until September 1943. After the Italian shift, the officials treated the surrender with Germans to avoid shedding of blood; the possibilities that were given to the soldier were: fight as volunteers in the Socialist Repubblic of Sal� , work in Germany or be prisoners of the enemy .They chose the last possibility, because they tought the war was almost finished. They were sent to Polin and they worked in a German factory for the excavation of a� railway tunnel . They had to work , under an armed control, eight hours a day.Their food was wast bread , cabbages,savoyes and skins of potatoes. When they finished the excavation , they were sent to an Austrian lager, where they were used to clean the streets from the snow and to repair buildings damaged by the bombs. In April 1945 they were transfered on a train which went from Lubiana� to Zagabria. They had to repair the damages caused by allied bombardaments. Near Lubiana they decided to run away , but they were caught by Tito�s partisans, who brought them to Belgrado.They were kept prisoners for some time.After that , they were embarked for Trieste , where they were given to Americans, who let them go home : it was 14 th June 1945.

6. progetto deportazioni 6 Lino Frosi Mr Lino Frosi was born on 9 th April 1914 and he was Elisa Frosi�s grandfather,a student at Liceo Classico. Mr Frosi , interviewed by his grand-daughter, said that in December 1940, he belonged to the department called �Genio�, which was composed by skilled labourer. He went on war in 1942 and he was embarked on a plane directed to Tunisi. He was a storeman and he had to bring, once a day,even during the bombardaments, the food to the soldiers who fought in the first line. Then he was kept prisoner by the English, who treated him badly. After a little time he was brought to the Americans who treated him well and paid him one dollar a day for the little work he did such as make the beds, polish the shoes....... In 1945 the Americans let him free and finally he came back home. However he remembers who left to Africa was luckier than those who were sent to Russia;out of 1000 left,only 10 may have come back home.

7. progetto deportazioni 7 Giuseppe Barbieri BIRTHDAY:21 September 1922 BIRTHPLACE:Castelvetro Piacentino. I took part in war in Balcania with the 14Th Regiment Mobile Artillery of division "Ferrara"from 6Th july 1942 till 8TH september 1943.I left from Nola.I was embarked on "Francesco Crispi"ship and I arrived in Cattaro in Iugoslavia.I went to Podgorica,Cetinie and Niksic.When I arrived in Niksic,I worked as a help cooker in non-commissioned officers' canteen.We,who were in the division "Ferrara",were sent to rest in barracks of Queen Elena in Cetinie,where I worked again as a help cooker.On 8th September the Germans desarmend us and we were brought on foot to the prisoner-of-war camp of Scutari:we walked about 60 km a day.I was imprisoned by the Germans from 8Th September 1943 till 15TH August 1944.On 20Th September the Germans brought me to a concentration camp A in Albania,not far from Scutari. We had� a ladle of boiling water only once a day. One day a German commander asked us if we prefered: 1)FIGHTING 2)WORKING 3)BEING INTERNED. I and 8 of my friends left the camp in order not to die slowly and so we decided to work with the Germans.In Bulgaria I did hard work a government firm of telephones. I was brought from Bulgaria to Romania in 1944. At the end of March I asked to work in Italy.So I went from Bucarest to Budapest by train, then to Vienna and finally to Italy.I had to return to the barracks on 13th September 1944, but, when I arrived in Castelvetro piacentino, I worked with the Germans. I wasn't called-up anylonger.