Chitignano
Maurizio Coda2021-11-17T18:29:48+01:00
Partisan Fidenzio Chisci was mortally wounded by the explosion of a German mine.
21
08, 1944
20
08, 1944
Zenna
Maurizio Coda2021-11-17T18:10:15+01:00
Retreating German troops passing through Zenna shot an elderly civilian. It is possible that he had breached an evacuation order or was shot because suspected of rebel activity.
20
08, 1944
Carda
Maurizio Coda2021-11-22T09:57:46+01:00
Retreating German executed Sirio Cardini of the Talla Autonomous Formation.
20
08, 1944
Zenna
Maurizio Coda2021-11-17T18:11:14+01:00
Retreating German troops passing through Zenna shot an elderly civilian. It is possible that he had breached an evacuation order or was shot because suspected of rebel activity.
15
08, 1944
Ornina
Maurizio Coda2021-11-17T18:07:29+01:00
During the days of the German retreat from the territory surrounding Rassina, the farmworker Santi Pastorelli was buried alive by an unspecified German patrol.
8
08, 1944
Pratovecchio
Maurizio Coda2021-11-18T08:47:17+01:00
Possibly related to the air-raid of August 8th 1944.
8
08, 1944
Pratovecchio
Maurizio Coda2021-11-18T08:46:46+01:00
Two people died in an Allied air raid on the same day.
8
08, 1944
Campi
Maurizio Coda2021-11-17T17:11:42+01:00
During the nazi-fascist occupation, the Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Neve became a hospital and a shelter for refugees and evacuated persons. Reinforced by other Dominican families who had fled to the Casentino out of fear of the bombing of Arezzo, this religious environment offered constant support and assistance to the nearby inhabitants. Out on one such duty, the Dominican Father Rosario Mirabene (displaced from Arezzo to Bibbiena together with the Collegio di Arezzo) was walking from Corsalone to the Sanctuary of Santa Maria del Sasso. He was talking to the German soldier escorting him, possibly criticising the German army for their cruel way of conducting the war. Probably irritated by this, the soldier opened fire, killing the monk. Mirabene was the second clergyman killed by the Germans in the Casentino. His body was retrieved near the stream Corsalone and buried in the Sanctuary of Santa Maria.
6
08, 1944
Memmenano
Maurizio Coda2021-11-18T08:05:55+01:00
A mixed patrol of 6 partisans from Companies I, II and VI, disobeying orders from the Command of the III Battalion, crossed the right bank of the Arno and attacked a sidecar at Memmenano, killing one soldier and wounding two others. In retaliation, the Germans shot an old man and deported 30 men. The partisans’ action, which was certainly successful in its outcome but had serious repercussions on civilians, created tension between the formations operating near Pratomagno. The situation was finally resolved with the dismissal of the patrol commander Virgilio Versari.
3
08, 1944
Ortignano
Maurizio Coda2021-11-22T11:04:17+01:00
The Partisan Commander of the III Company, Giuseppe Versari, returned to his home in Ortignano to arrange the logistics of the bread supply for his group stationed on Pratomagno. There he was surprised by a unit of local fascists. Versari defended himself, killing Egisto Mistretta, brother of the Secretary of the Fascio of Ortignano and putting the rest of his attackers to flight. However, Versari was forced to flee and left his wife Ada Bellucci alone at home. During the night, the fascists returned to Ortignano together with a strong German unit. They killed Ada and set fire to the house. The Germans left the village taking 10 hostages with them, almost all of whom were related to the Bellucci family. They were saved thanks to the intercession of Don Walfrido Pendolesi and the Prefectural Commissioner of Bibbiena, Nello Zuccaro.
