Garden of Copertino
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Province of Lecce (Puglia)
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On 6 March 2018 with a public ceremony at Melissa Park the Garden of the Righteous of Copertino has been inaugurated, with institutional speeches and the participation of Franco Perlasca, Matilde Montinaro, and Father Salvatore Santomasi.
On the occasion of the Day of the Righteous, Giorgio Perlasca, Etty Hillesum, Massimiliano Maria Kolbe have been hounoured in the new Garden.
People honoured in this Garden
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| Giorgio Perlasca presenting himself as spanish Ambassador in Hungary he saved 5218 Jews |
| Etty Hillesum was the author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the German occupation |
| Massimiliano Maria Kolbe Polish presbyter who offered to take the place of a family man, destined for Auschwitz |
| Sophie Scholl the white rose that stood up to Nazism |
| Primo Levi the writer who bore witness to the Holocaust |
| Carlo Angela he rescued several people in the hospital where he worked |
| Irena Sendler the Polish nurse who saved 2500 Jewish children |
| Pietro Bartolo [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous] The doctor of Lampedusa who rescues migrants and tells theirs stories |
| Cristina Cattaneo [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous] the woman who gives an identity to the deads in the Mediterranean |
| Enrico Calamai the vice consul who rescued 300 people from the military dictatorship |
| Franz Jägerstätter |