SMALL MARTYR UNKNOWN
FACTS
Joseph Ghersi (July 12, 1931 - April 30 / May 1 (?) 1945) [1] was a student of the institute 13 years teaching "Mary Joseph Rossello" the neighborhood "La Villa" in Savona. Daughter of commercianti ortofrutticoli abitava in via Tallone, attualmente via Donizzetti. Dall’esposto [2] del padre, Giovanni Ghersi, presentato al Procuratore della Repubblica di Savona in data 29 aprile 1949 leggiamo che: “ll 25 aprile ‘45, alle 5 pomeridiane” i partigiani, appena entrati a Savona, chiedono ai Ghersi del materiale di medicazione che la famiglia non esita a fornire volentieri. Il giorno successivo, come di consueto, i coniugi si dirigono verso il loro banco di frutta e verdura ma in zona San Michele, poco dopo le 6.00 del mattino, sono fermati da due partigiani armati di mitra. Vengono portati al Campo di Concentramento di Legino, situato nella zona dell’odierno complesso delle Scuole Medie Guidobono, dove un terzo partigiano sequestra loro le chiavi dell’appartamento e del magazzino. Dopo circa mezz’ora viene deportata al Campo anche la cognata e i partigiani, senza testimoni, possono finalmente procedere rubando le merci dal negozio e tutti i beni della famiglia presenti in casa la cui esatta ubicazione è indicata da Laura Mongolli, madre della piccola, a seguito di "minacce e percosse"[3]. Solo Giuseppina manca all’appello perché ospitata da alcuni amici di famiglia in Via Paolo Boselli 6/8. I Ghersi, ormai detenuti da due giorni senza lo straccio di un’accusa, chiedono spiegazioni ai partigiani. Viene loro detto che si tratta di un semplice controllo e che hanno bisogno di fare delle domande alla figlioletta. Since Joseph had previously won a competition themed receiving, via letter, complimented by the Secretary of the Duce himself, being a good-natured trifle, her parents persuaded in part about the intentions of the partisans and, accompanied by armed men, ranging to take the baby. The whole family Ghersi is then translated back to the concentration camp where he began the first day of madness. E 'on the afternoon of April 27, 1945: Mother and daughter are raped and beaten while his father, stopped by five men, was forced to watch the gruesome spectacle struck by a rifle butt on the back and head. For the duration of the scene of his father's captors demand rivelare dove avesse nascosto altro denaro e oggetti preziosi. Giuseppina cade probabilmente in stato comatoso perché, come riferisce l’esposto al Procuratore, “non aveva più la forza di chiamare suo papà”. Verso sera inizia a piovere e le belve, stanche di soddisfare i propri istinti, conducono Giovanni e Laura Ghersi presso il Comando Partigiano di Via Niella dove viene chiaramente detto che a loro carico non è emerso nulla. Nonostante ciò i partigiani li rinchiudono nel carcere Sant’Agostino. Giuseppina subisce da sola un lungo calvario di sofferenze finché, il 30 Aprile 1945 (?), viene finita con un colpo di pistola per poi essere gettata davanti alle mura del Cimitero di Zinola su un cumulo di cadaveri. The body was lying by staff of the place in the line of awards for several days. Here he was noticed by Mr. Stelvio Murialdo for some chilling details. [4] Ms. Ghersi is released after 12 days of detention and regain the keys to his home by his sister, Maria Mongolli, which, meanwhile, was forced to go to the district headquarters of the Communist Furnaces for them. A few days later shows a man named Peragallo, ringleader of the PCI, which shall be sealed by all except a small room and kitchen. It 's almost summer and the husband is released from prison on June 11 without ever being questioned for the duration of detention. On this occasion he is confirmed la notizia della morte di sua figlia e, nonostante il tremendo peso che aggrava il suo cuore, ritrova dentro casa la moglie e la cognata terrorizzate. Il Sig. Ghersi si rivolge alla Questura dove, per via delle ruberie, gli viene corrisposto un acconto di 150’000 Lire mentre un agente, di nome Galatolo, si offre d’aiutarlo nella rimozione dei sigilli apposti ai locali della propria casa. L’uomo, dovendo provvedere a moglie e cognata, viene assunto “per compassione” presso il consorzio ortofrutticolo dove riesce a percepire il minimo necessario per sopravvivere. Sembra quasi che le cose tendano verso una certa normalizzazione [5] quando la notte dell’11 Luglio, a un mese esatto dalla scarcerazione di Giovanni, you begin to notice some noises that wake up jolt of the family. An unidentified group of people tries to force the door Ghersi that, fortunately, does not yield. John and Laura can no longer bear the burden of violence against them and flee from Savona facing a life of hardship and poverty in every meeting where the suspicion of political officials of the Communist Party.
MEMORY REFUSED
In the '50s Mr. Stelvio Murialdo along with other friends decided to establish a periodic meeting to try to give voice to the stories denied by the vulgate Resistance. Birth of the first group of the Children of Manfrei. These were difficult years, crossed by a red thread of murder as evidenced For example, the murder of Commissioner Salemi silenced by the mysterious "Silent Gun." The only environment that supports these testimonies is that of the Italian Social Movement with the cultural isolation that follows. Relatives of victims as well as eyewitnesses are accused of being nostalgic for fascism, and neither the newspapers nor the authors of local history grant citizenship to such stories. They spend decades until, at the national level, seems to open some glimmer of hope 2005 is the year of the first day of memorial for the martyrs of Foibe and, timidly, in 2008 some are starting to ask the local branch of La Stampa in Savona the possibility finally to speak of Joseph Ghersi. The District Council Vito Cafueri demand, without success, to get a small plaque in his memory in the district furnaces. It seems that the climate is changing, the former senator of the Communist Party Giovanni Urbani, political commissar at the time of partisan division Gin Bevilacqua, said: "I went to Savona on that day but did not know of this incident that certainly deserves a deeper archives. It would not be an isolated case. We came from a civil war that had happened just about anything, "but the reactions were not slow and Mrs. Vanna Vaccani Artioli, for 27 years and Provincial Secretary of the PNA National Director said:" I remember Joseph Ghersi. It was little more than a little girl but she cooperated with the fascists. His was definitely a performance. " The unfounded accusations of collaboration can not be retaken because, at the same time, the relatives of one of the partisans involved probably in fact, denounce Printing requires a compensation they are entitled by law because the crime in question was granted amnesty by the Italian Republic, and none can be allocated. The newspaper chose not to speak of the fact until 11 February 2010 when the press gives a small piece of interpellation to the news of City Councilman Alfred Remigio, in support of the initiative launched by the Young Manfrei, claims that is "called a public space or at least set up a Day of Remembrance in memory of Joseph Ghersi. The City rejected the request and Savona in Italy, via internet, spontaneous groups created to support the memory of Josephine Ghersi. The areas of the extreme left occur at several sites and blogs including Indymedia starting to pontificate on strange political conspiracy since the period immediately next to the regional elections. The Head of Culture of the Municipality of Savona, Ferdinand Molteni, spoke on the front page of La Stampa in Savona, saying: "Ghersi the crime was a despicable act, but with the naming of streets creates conflicts and problems are not solved." The encyclopedia "free" Wikipedia repeatedly denies the possibility of drawing up a page in memory of the facts and the ANPI, the demand for advanced collaboration by students of Manfrei, responds with silence. On the occasion of April 25, 2010 the infant Committee "pro Giuseppina Ghersi"-that contains within it all the associations and people in favor of the memory-organizes a billboard ad memoriam of the space dedicated to the funeral announcements. On some leaflets are written indecorous but found no one condemns the act. On the morning of June 12, 2010 a peaceful march erupts in the streets of the old town there are not any partisan symbols, but only three colors in accordance with the desire to obtain a shared memory on this historical event. A delegation from entering the municipal building and delivering hundreds of signatures of protest to the house staff as the institutional representatives present absent. The newspapers did not mention any way the event and the City does not come any response. On December 15, 2010, Michele Laurelli, Provincial President of the Students' Look of Savona, is launching a competition on the figure of Joseph Ghersi aimed at all schools. On-line trigger controversy among the various political youth groups without intervening in the debate the parties themselves. Some groups of students are reporting problems with availability of the complete documentation on the case in the Archives Ghersi State also the local dates on the documents concerning the death of the girl does not coincide with the facts.
next April there will be sixty-sixth anniversary of this sad story deliberately forgotten, that month falls within the wall of silence?
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[1] Mysteriously register Cemetery Zinola holds municipal documents that attest to the death of small-April 26, 1945. Clerical error or deliberate choice not to fit the crime Ghersi is connected with others? ] It 's difficult to establish with certainty the exact day of death, Josephine. The date of April 26, 1945 is a paradox because the parents are left with the girl until 27. As Mongolli reported in the testimony of Laura, the mother of Joseph: "At the local municipality is deceased April 26. The date is certainly wrong since the day my daughter 27 was certainly still alive." According to Giovanni Ghersi all'esposto submitted to the Prosecutor of the Republic would have been killed with a small pistol at 4 am on May 1.
[2] The complaint, which you can request a copy to the State of Savona, consists of 6 pages handwritten and was fully transcribed at: http://www.facebook.com/l/c40e1a24dabnjQcBl7i45N9sHsw / www.ragazzidelmanfrei.it/storie.php?nws=55
[3] The deposition the mother can be read at the URL: http://www.facebook.com/l/c40e1llDRfTjRepwbBuSZ0Djd9w/www.ragazzidelmanfrei.it/storie.php?nws=54
[4] From the memory of Mr. Stelvio Murialdo " And the first was a corpse of a young woman, were terrible conditions in which 'had been reduced, apparently had prevailed in brutally on her, but could not erase his young age'. Had laid a compassionate hand on her a dirty gray blanket that partially covered from neck to knees. The war had forced him to see so many dead bodies, and in truth ', the death grant to an expanse of dead serenity', but she, the unknown girl NO! The 'horror was impressed on his face a mask of blood, with one eye blue, swollen el 'more wide open on the' hell. I remember that I could not, paralyzed, to break away from the poor disjointed puppet, with a stiff arm towards the 'top, as if protecting the front, while A BROKEN FINGER was bent toward the back of his hand. "
[5] As reads the declaration of the same John Ghersi, in this cit. Exposed: "It was a period of almost serene ..."
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