File taken from the Central Political Records Office about the socialist and anti-Fascist philosopher Eugenio Colorni (1909-1940). Between 1939 and 1941 he was confined on the island of Ventotene and subsequently in Melfi. After 1943, he was part of the resistance in...
Paris, June 19, 1937. The funeral of the antifascists Carlo and Nello Rosselli, among the founders of Giustizia e Libertà, killed at Bagnoles-de-l’Orne (Lower Normandy). In the first row of the funeral procession Emilio Lussu, Piero Treves, Olga Levi Treves, and Paolo...
The weekly Giustizia e Libertà (Justice and Freedom), linked to the homonymous liberal-socialist political movement, is founded in Paris by a group of Italian anti-Fascists, including Carlo Rosselli. In the 24 May 1935 edition, mass arrests of anti-Fascists in Turin...
Rome, Excelsior movie theatre, 1934. Award Ceremony for the Piccola Italiana Silvana Ajò, born in the Capital city in 1927. Silvana, the third girl from the right, receives a gold medal for school merits from the Fascist leader Renato Ricci. Silvana Ajò Cagli’s...
Ferrara, 1930s. Pupils of the Jewish school in uniforms of the regime’s organizations. Amongst them are Franco Schönheit, Paolo Tedeschi, Donata Ravenna, Cesare Finzi, Cesare Neppi Modena, Sara Colombo. Istituto di Storia Contemporanea, Ferrara