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Definizione

Leone Ginzburg was a Russian-born Jewish partisan in Italy. Before the war he was a university professor active in the anti-fascist Giustizia e Libertà movement in Turin. He was arrested several times for anti-fascist activities and his Italian citizenship was revoked under the racial laws. From 1940 to July 1943 he and his wife, the writer Natalia Ginzburg, were placed under enforced residence in the Abruzzi. Ginzburg then went to Rome to participate in armed resistance in the Guistizia e Libertá brigades sponsored by the Action Party. He was arrested by the Germans in November 1943 and died in the Regina Coeli prison after being tortured in February 1944. (en-US)

Fonte

Wilhelm, Maria de Blasio. The Other Italy: The Italian Resistance in World War II. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1988. p. 67, 166

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• persone famose per ragioni positive o negative