| Devoted to my fhater..................................................................................................................... |
Introduction
I devote this site to my father, a man that I have loved and esteemed so much for his moral and intellectual dowries, his goodness of heart, his tenacity and his determination, a special person indeed that has had a difficult life and troubled and that despite this he has always said to consider himself a lucky man really to survived to the huge tragedy of the deportation.
My father has passed away on July 23 rd 2007. My dad was so very sick. For years he fought against Alzheimer’s and he could not do what he had chosen to do for so many years anymore and not without consequences for his health, he could not tell his experience of deportated person anymore to the young people. I have decided to do this for him and I have picked up how much I have found thin to now in his "messy" drawers from the illness. You will find the relationship that took place every year in the Milan schools to tell the horrors of Nazism, the photos that he has never wanted to show me when I was a child and the notes spitefully written of his fist and then traced when he had understood that he would not have been able to remember anymore. I make this material available and all of this that I will still succeed in retrieving of whom will want to know for not forgetting and not to allow that everything happens again.
..... I'm the baby of whom my father speaks about in his testimony, and the best way to honor his memory is to read what happened him, please do it!
Manuela
Valletti
journalist |
| About the deportation |
I tell you about my deportation
© Ferdinando Valetti
Note of Ferdinando Valletti to illustrate the photos of the fields and the liberation
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| Biography of Ferdinando Valletti |
April 5 th 1921 he was born in Verona
he spends the infancy and the adolescence in a college and he graduates him to the Industrial Institute in Verona
in 1938 he is assumed to the Alfa Romeo in Milan as "Teacher of art"
in 1941 he is in the military service
in 1942-1943 he plays in the AC MILAN as "median" beside Meazza.
in March 1944 he organizes the strike to the Alfa Romeo, he is arrested by the men of the Muti ones, sent to the jail of S.Vittore and deported first to Mauthausen and subsequently to GUSEN where he knows and helps Prof. Aldo Carpi, great italian painter, that quotes him in his book "Diary Of GUSEN"
May 5 th 1945 is freed by the Americans
in August of 1945 he has repatriated in precarious conditions of health and in-patient in the nursing home, subsequently he will be recognized by the State an indemnity as "Cripple of War."
in 1946 he retours to work in Alfa Romeo and it begins his professional ascent
in 1947 heis honored some Medal Garibaldina to the military value and you recognized him the "Brevet of Fighting Partisan"
1949-1950 photos of Valetti with Nordahl and Bonomi of the A.C. Milan
in 1950 he returns to Mathausen and Gusen in official visit with delegation of the Alfa Romeo: Ferrazza, Crippa, Romanoni, Nespoli, Vignolle, deportats and survivors like him
from 1961 it becomes executive manager of the sector logistics of the Alfa ROMEO from 1970 it becomes a teacher in the sector of the Business Logistics of the Mechanical association and the I.S.E.O. and it participates as relator in the "TRAMAG" the international saloon of the movimentazione and the logistics to Padova.
in 1970 he is named President of the Retired Group of the Alfa Romeo and it realizes a program of relief, cultural and recreational activity that sets the Alfa Romeo Retired Group to the state-of-the-art one among the GROUPs A.N.L.A.
in 1975 he is named "Teacher of the Job" from the Italian President of the Republic
in February of 1976 he receives the AMBROGINO from the Mayor of Milan Aniasi
in 1978 it reaches the 40 years of service and leaves the working activity to the Alfa Romeo
in 1980 he begins to be a testimonial of the horrors suffered by many innocent persons in Nazi concentration camps in the middle and High school of Milan through the ANED and the ANPI,
in 1988 he is quoted by Duccio Bigatti in his book "The Portello". Workers, technical, entrepreneurs to the alfa Romeo" an essay of history on the Italian industry
from 1993 its health is mined by serious pathologies, the last of which, the Alzheimer disease , forces him in 2000 to abdicate his didactic activity.
in 1994 shows up at the Academy of Brera with Pinin Carpi (son of the known Italian painter Aldo Carpì) and other personalities, the second edition of the "Diary Of GUSEN"
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| Links correlated to the deportation |
Il Lager di Mauthausen
In Austria. Sito ufficiale del campo, oggi passato sotto la responsabilità del ministero degli Interni austriaco. Gli orari di visita, il museo, il programma delle manifestazioni celebrative.
Testi in inglese e tedesco.
http://www.mauthausen-memorial.at/
dipendente da Mauthausen, dove morirono tra gli altri migliaia di deportati italiani. Testi in inglese e italiano.
http://www.gusen.org
Il Lager di Sachsenhausen
Dove morirono migliaia di deportati di molti paesi europei, e tantissimi italiani Testi in tedesco.
http://www.stiftung-bg.de
La Fondazione di Breitenau
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