that morning was dark and Arona Meina. It was dark as could be 15 September 1943, when the SS began the roundup of Jews on the lake. It was so dark that diligent Italian officials Prefecture recovered in the list of Jews in town claimed to not find it, so that other citizens gave several indications that working in the dark.
was dark when a doctor of thirty years, Luca Canelli, went with her in front of Mickey Mouse ' Hotel Sempione, where the withdrawal was being Jewish. The doctor knew what was happening and decided to do what his conscience required, lighting a small light in the dark was falling on the lake. Braving the danger failed to warn Federico Jarach (Milanese industrialist, former president of the Jewish community and President of Italian Union of Jewish Communities) who was in his villa in Meina with his family.
was dark when a doctor of thirty years, Luca Canelli, went with her in front of Mickey Mouse ' Hotel Sempione, where the withdrawal was being Jewish. The doctor knew what was happening and decided to do what his conscience required, lighting a small light in the dark was falling on the lake. Braving the danger failed to warn Federico Jarach (Milanese industrialist, former president of the Jewish community and President of Italian Union of Jewish Communities) who was in his villa in Meina with his family.
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| September 1999: Dr. Luca Canelli receives the medal of Righteous Among the Nations by the Israeli delegate |
Eleven people escaped death that day. One of them could not make the journey by boat, then hid it Canelli hospital with the help of Dr. Rattaggi, a fascist of the first now that did not hesitate to rebel against the horror.
Jarach For decades, remembered the young doctor who had saved them from the fate of other Jews Meina shot and left to float in the lake, or maybe the chimney of one of the areas around Europe, or - worse - from the black hole that disappeared the same day, the Jews of Arona. Luca
Canelli, he had made "only his duty ," as repeated incessantly to everyone, instead chose to forget for more than fifty years: even the children will never know the gesture made by his father.
Canelli, he had made "only his duty ," as repeated incessantly to everyone, instead chose to forget for more than fifty years: even the children will never know the gesture made by his father.
But someone had not forgotten and the Board of Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial, he had started the mechanism for the top award of the State of Israel for a non-jew who has saved the Israelites. On May 19, 1999 Luca Canelli was named Righteous Among the Nations.
So when the Israeli Embassy ottantasettenne contact your doctor now for the latest checks, he passes the practice to his daughter Anna. And the day of the awards ceremony, in front of so many concisttadini attending the ceremony of the coin, and that they had never imagined anything of what happened, he repeats again, " I've only done my duty, medical and man." Today
an open space in his home city remembers the name of Luke Canelli.
Today his name on the wall of Yad Vashem reminds us of those who in the dark, did not close his eyes.
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Victims of the massacre of Meina
Pierre Fernandez Diaz, the father Dino Fernandez Diaz, his wife Liliana Scialom; Raoul Torres, a cousin of Diaz Fernandez, with his wife Valerie Nahoum, Mark moved with his wife Esther Botton, son James and daughter Odette Renato Mosseri, Lotte Froelich in Mazzucchelli, Cori Vitale, Vittorio Pompas Haim, Jean, Robert and Blanchette Fernandez Diaz, Daniel Modiano.
Taken in Arona and disappeared into thin
Irma Finzi in cantons Mamiani Della Rovere, Angelo's son Vittorio Cantoni Mamiani Della Rovere, Margaret Coen in Pence, Clara Kleinberger in Rakosi and his son Tiberius Alexander Rakosi, James Elias Modiano, his brother Charles Elias Modiano, Modiano's sister Grace, his wife Mary Bardavid.
an open space in his home city remembers the name of Luke Canelli.
Today his name on the wall of Yad Vashem reminds us of those who in the dark, did not close his eyes.
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Victims of the massacre of Meina
Pierre Fernandez Diaz, the father Dino Fernandez Diaz, his wife Liliana Scialom; Raoul Torres, a cousin of Diaz Fernandez, with his wife Valerie Nahoum, Mark moved with his wife Esther Botton, son James and daughter Odette Renato Mosseri, Lotte Froelich in Mazzucchelli, Cori Vitale, Vittorio Pompas Haim, Jean, Robert and Blanchette Fernandez Diaz, Daniel Modiano.
Taken in Arona and disappeared into thin
Irma Finzi in cantons Mamiani Della Rovere, Angelo's son Vittorio Cantoni Mamiani Della Rovere, Margaret Coen in Pence, Clara Kleinberger in Rakosi and his son Tiberius Alexander Rakosi, James Elias Modiano, his brother Charles Elias Modiano, Modiano's sister Grace, his wife Mary Bardavid.
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