Luigi Franzin

 Helpers Luigi Franzin Luigi and his wife Clorinda were farmers. They had four young children and a fifth daughter on the way. Despite the risk, Luigi decided to aid some escaped Allied PoWs, giving them food and clothes for several months. In particular, when...

Letizia Galie Del Gobbo

 Helpers Letizia Galie Del Gobbo Letizia, a widow, lived in the small village of Smerillo with her six children. A few days after the Armistice, four escaped American prisoners from POW Camp 59 in Servigliano, who had decided to head south following the course...

Eugenio e Silvia Elfer

 Helpers Eugenio e Silvia Elfer Eugenio Elfer [known as Nino] was born in 1920 and earned a degree in Political Science at a very young age; his sister Silvia, three years younger, was a talented pianist. They were both bright and promising young individuals,...

Celestina Aceti Vaccarone

 Helpers Celestina Aceti Vaccarone John Doleman, a Scot, captured at Tobruck in June 1942, was a prisoner in  PG. 66 in Capua and PG. 53 in Sforzacosta,before being transferred, in June 1943,to the Cascina Rinalda work camp connected to the “distribution...

Bruno Balzarini

 Helpers Bruno Balzarini Bruno Balzarini, a 43-year-old trader with two young children, was part of the Comitato Centrale di Liberazione (Central Committee of Liberation) created by the former prisoner of war John Desmond Peck, which operated in all of...