Description
The Civic Library of Bormio, in collaboration with the Department of Culture, organizes "A Mountain of Words - Read Bormio", a series of meetings with various authors.
Reading and discussion of the book "The Suitcase of Memory Ezio Armando Salvadori - Memories of a Military Internment" edited by Giovani Peretti published by Alpina Editrice.
Trama
Ezio Armando Salvadori was in his early twenties when his life changed forever. With his comrades in the 5th Alpine Regiment he was in South Tyrol on September 8, 1943, when Italy signed the armistice. In the chaos of those days, he was captured by the Germans and, like 650,000 other Italian soldiers, deported to internment camps. Deprived of the status of prisoners of war because they refused to collaborate with Nazi-Fascism, the Italian Military internees were forced into forced labor and to survive amid hunger, toil, and humiliation. Salvadori spent two years first in East Prussia, then in Germany in a large railway workshop. In his diary, written years later with incredible lucidity, fear and loneliness resurface, but also friendship and small gestures of humanity that helped him and his comrades endure. His wooden suitcase, built by a fellow prisoner, becomes a symbol: not just a container for the little food, but a refuge for memories and dignity. Giovanni Peretti's preface historically contextualizes the diary, illustrating the story of the IMIs, men who chose not to collaborate with Nazi-Fascism at great cost. A page of history that deserves to be remembered.
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Details
Free admission
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Practical information
- Meeting point
- Bormio, Sc'tua Granda c/o Palazzo De Simoni
- Address
- 3, Bormio
- Bookable
- No