People and places
The stories of Italy.
Homes, streets and memorial sites.
The people who left something of themselves here.
Odoardo Focherini
A devout Catholic journalist who became the director of an underground network that saved Jews from the clutches of the Gestapo. He paid with his life for acting as Italy's Schindler, proving that courage knows no boundaries.
Gino Bartali
The Tour de France champion who rode his bicycle with forged documents hidden inside its steel frame. He played the part of an athlete out training, while quietly saving hundreds of lives.
Donato Manduzio
A single nighttime vision experienced by a simple Italian farmer led an entire village to abandon Christianity, undergo circumcision, and make aliyah. The mystical, unimaginable journey of Righteous Among the Nations who became Hebrew fighters in the heart of the Galilee.
4 place links in this collection
- San Nicandro Garganico, Apulia, Italy (the village that converted to Judaism)
- Carpi, Province of Modena, Italy (his birthplace)
- Gino Bartali Museum, Ponte a Ema, Florence, Italy
- San Quirico Monastery (hiding place of the Jews), Assisi, Italy