The Garden of the Righteous of Milan
dedicated to the Righteous from all over the world
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Address
North entrance: via Cimabue
South entrance: piazza Santa Maria Nascente
MM1 (QT8)
20148 Milan
Province of Milan (Lombardy)
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Contacts
Association for the Garden of the Righteous in Milan
+39 02 36707648
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Opening in 2003
On 24th January 2003, following the proposal made by the President of Gariwo Gabriele Nissim to reserve a symbolic place in the city for remembrance of morally resistant exemplary individuals from all parts of the Earth, the Garden of the Righteous Worldwide was opened in Milan, in the large green area of Monte Stella. The first trees were dedicated to Moshe Bejski for the Righteous of Shoah, Pietro Kuciukian in honour of the Righteous for Armenians, Svetlana Broz for the Righteous against ethnic cleansing in the Balkans.
The Garden of the Righteous is a place of dialogue and education to personal responsibility that pays tribute to women and men who helped the victims of genocides, persecution and totalitarian regimes in every part of the world. It teaches us to recognize the beauty of good individuals and shows that by exercising even the smallest space of freedom, every human being can become a bulwark against injustice or crimes against humanity.
Activities carried out in this place led to the institution of the Day of the Righteous on 6th March, which became a civil festivity in Italy in 2017.
The Birth of the Association
Since 13th November 2008 the Garden has been managed by the Association for the Garden of the Righteous in Milan, founded by the City of Milan, the Union of Italian Jewish Communities and Gariwo.
Chaired by Milan Mayor in office, every year the Association organizes the ceremony at the Garden on 6th March and coordinates educational, dissemination and cultural activities revolving around this place.
New Look
In 2019 the Garden was renovated based on a project by architects Stefano Valabrega and Giacomo Crepax. The new space has been designed to be a living place of education, remembrance and dialogue not only during official ceremonies, but also throughout the year.
This is why the Garden hosts a real path among the Righteous.
After discovering the stories of exemplary individuals honoured with a tree and a memorial stone, one walks through Viale del Bene (the Avenue of the Good) up to Albero della Memoria (the Tree of Remembrance), where plaques dedicated to the new Righteous begin. After this, one reaches Spazio del Dialogo (the Dialogue Room), a small area with a few chairs where one can reflect, read and talk. The path then leads to a peculiar piece, Albero delle Virtù (the Tree of Virtues). Its geometry recalls the map of Milan and words engraved are the values guiding the actions of the Righteous: solidarity, human rights, civil courage, memory, truth.
At the end of the path, surrounded by trees, one eventually reaches an Amphitheatre dedicated to Ulianova Radice, Gariwo director who passed away in 2018. This space can host concerts, theatre performances, debates and classes, to think about the stories of the Righteous and to what their example can teach us in everyday life.
Experiencing the Garden
Every year, on the Day of the Righteous – 6th March, this place hosts the ceremony dedicating new plaques, before city authorities, the Righteous or their representatives and hundreds of students.
However, the Garden is a place to be experienced also at different times. It is an original architectural space, an open-air museum to be discovered as a peculiar corner of the city; it hosts events, concerts, theatre performances and readings; it periodically offers activities for children and youngsters; it can be visited at any time of the year thanks to the dedication of our guides and to the audio guide created by Gariwo editorial staff - a tour telling about exemplary individuals honoured through images, stories, in-depth analyses, interviews, thematic pathways and quizzes to “play” with the Righteous.
Experiencing the Garden
The next initiatives at the Garden of Milan
The Garden of Milan is a non-fenced area.
It is always open and you can visit it with our audioguide.
For a guided tour write an email to segreteria@gariwo.net for all information needed.
Righteous honoured
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| 80 | Akram Aylisli An Azerbaijani writer defies in solitude his government by publishing a book about Armenians |
Ceremony 2023 "Saving human in human beings. The Righteous and personal responsibility" |
| 79 | Hersch Lauterpacht British jurist, advisor at the Nuremberg Trials and creator of the Charter of Human Rights |
Ceremony 2023 "Saving human in human beings. The Righteous and personal responsibility" |
| 78 | Alfreda “Noncia” Markowska the Roma who saved dozens of children of his people and Jews |
Ceremony 2023 "Saving human in human beings. The Righteous and personal responsibility" |
| 77 | Gareth Jones Welsh journalist who revealed the Holodomor |
Ceremony 2023 "Saving human in human beings. The Righteous and personal responsibility" |
| 71 | Raphael Lemkin the great jurist who coined the word “genocide” |
Ceremony 2022 "Preventing genocides and mass atrocities. The stories of the Righteous against silence and indifference" |
| 72 | Henry Morgenthau the US Ambassador who helped the Armenians |
Ceremony 2022 "Preventing genocides and mass atrocities. The stories of the Righteous against silence and indifference" |
| 73 | Aristides de Sousa Mendes the Portuguese consul who helped the Jews to leave France |
Ceremony 2022 "Preventing genocides and mass atrocities. The stories of the Righteous against silence and indifference" |
| 74 | Evgenija Solomonovna Ginzburg witness to the whirlwind of the Gulag |
Ceremony 2022 "Preventing genocides and mass atrocities. The stories of the Righteous against silence and indifference" |
| 75 | Godeliève Mukasarasi Despite her family was killed, she collaborated in Akayesu trial, contributing to the world’s first conviction for genocide |
Ceremony 2022 "Preventing genocides and mass atrocities. The stories of the Righteous against silence and indifference" |
| 76 | Ilham Tohti Known as “China's Mandela”, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for defending Uighur rights |
Ceremony 2022 "Preventing genocides and mass atrocities. The stories of the Righteous against silence and indifference" |
| 70 | Ruth Bader Ginsburg liberal judge and pioneer of feminism, fought for gender equality at the US Supreme Court |
Ceremony 2021 "For a new Humanity. The example of the Righteous in a world marked by Covid" |
| 69 | Liu Xia human rights advocate in China, she shared Liu Xiabo's commitment for democracy |
Ceremony 2021 "For a new Humanity. The example of the Righteous in a world marked by Covid" |
| 68 | Liu Xiaobo Writer and soul of Charter 08, the manifesto for the rule of law in communist China |
Ceremony 2021 "For a new Humanity. The example of the Righteous in a world marked by Covid" |
| 67 | Carlo Urbani he was a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the first physician to diagnose SARS |
Ceremony 2021 "For a new Humanity. The example of the Righteous in a world marked by Covid" |
| 66 | Dag Hammarskjöld an introverted diplomat for peace, he increased the executive role of the Secretary General in peace operations |
Ceremony 2021 "For a new Humanity. The example of the Righteous in a world marked by Covid" |
| 61 | Piero Martinetti founder of the Philosophical School of Milan, he was the only philosopher among university professors to refuse to take the oath to the fascist regime in 1931 |
Ceremony 2020 "The Righteous of global responsibility" |
| 60 | The Women of Rosenstrasse they saved 2.000 Jews with a bold protest on Berlin's Rosenstrasse |
Ceremony 2020 "The Righteous of global responsibility" |
| 62 | Wallace Broecker pioneer of the fight against climate change |
Ceremony 2020 "The Righteous of global responsibility" |
| 63 | Valerij Legasov the man who managed to mitigate the consequences of Chernobyl |
Ceremony 2020 "The Righteous of global responsibility" |
| 64 | Yusra Mardini a young swimmer for refugee rights |
Ceremony 2020 "The Righteous of global responsibility" |
| 65 | Hevrin Khalaf activist for the peaceful coexistence between Kurds, Syriac Christians and Arabs |
Ceremony 2020 "The Righteous of global responsibility" |
| 56 | István Bibó he helped Jews with false documents and he wrote political analyses in which he opposed the Communist party's dictatorial tendencies |
Ceremony 2019 "The Righteous for Europe and Africa" |
| 57 | Simone Veil A Holocaust survivor, she was a magistrate, minister, and the first woman President of the European Parliament and also the first to preside over the directly elected European Parliament |
Ceremony 2019 "The Righteous for Europe and Africa" |
| 59 | Denis Mukwege A doctor against rape in the Congo |
Ceremony 2019 "The Righteous for Europe and Africa" |
| 58 | Wangari Muta Maathai The woman of trees, symbol of the struggle to promote peace |
Ceremony 2019 "The Righteous for Europe and Africa" |
| 53 | Ho Feng Shan the first diplomat who saved Jews by issuing visas for them to let them escape from the Holocaust |
Ceremony 2018 "The Righteous of Hospitality. Beyond borders to pull down the walls" |
| 54 | Costantino Baratta the bricklayer from Lampedusa who saved 12 Eritrean children during the massacre of 3 October |
Ceremony 2018 "The Righteous of Hospitality. Beyond borders to pull down the walls" |
| 55 | Daphne Vloumidi the hotel owner from Lesbos who was arrested for driving them to the ferry embarkment to Athens the refugees landed in 2015 |
Ceremony 2018 "The Righteous of Hospitality. Beyond borders to pull down the walls" |
| 52 | Hammo Shero The chief of Sindjar who defended the Armenians during genocide |
Ceremony 2018 "The Righteous of Hospitality. Beyond borders to pull down the walls" |
| 48 | Mohamed Naceur (Hamadi) ben Abdesslem the guide who took into safety the Italians at the Bardo Museum |
Ceremony 2017 "The Righteous of Dialogue: the meeting of diversities to overcome hatred" |
| 49 | Lassana Bathily the young boy from Mali who saved the Jews during the attack against the kosher supermarket |
Ceremony 2017 "The Righteous of Dialogue: the meeting of diversities to overcome hatred" |
| 51 | Pinar Selek Turkish sociologist and peace and human rights activist |
Ceremony 2017 "The Righteous of Dialogue: the meeting of diversities to overcome hatred" |
| 47 | Raif Badawi the Saudi blogger sentenced to 1000 lashes |
Ceremony 2017 "The Righteous of Dialogue: the meeting of diversities to overcome hatred" |
| 50 | 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 |
Ceremony 2017 "The Righteous of Dialogue: the meeting of diversities to overcome hatred" |
| 45 | Flavia Agnes a lawyer for women’s rights, writer and activist of gender issues |
Ceremony 2016 "The moral and civil resistance of women for their dignity as a universal heritage" |
| 46 | Sonita Alizadeh the rapper who denounced the tragedy of child brides |
Ceremony 2016 "The moral and civil resistance of women for their dignity as a universal heritage" |
| 42 | Felicia Bartolotta Impastato Peppino Impastato’s mother |
Ceremony 2016 "The moral and civil resistance of women for their dignity as a universal heritage" |
| 44 | Halima Bashir a doctor in Darfur |
Ceremony 2016 "The moral and civil resistance of women for their dignity as a universal heritage" |
| 43 | Vian Dakhil Yazidi deputy against the Islamic State |
Ceremony 2016 "The moral and civil resistance of women for their dignity as a universal heritage" |
| 41 | Azucena Villaflor founder of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo |
Ceremony 2016 "The moral and civil resistance of women for their dignity as a universal heritage" |
| 23 | Khaled al-Asaad the keeper of Palmyra |
Special Ceremony 2015 |
| 6 | Mehmet Gelal Bey the vali of Aleppo who opposed the Armenian genocide |
Ceremony 2015 "Then and now, the Always Needed Righteous" |
| 3 | Alganesh Fessaha a woman to the rescue of migrants in Africa and Lampedusa |
Ceremony 2015 "Then and now, the Always Needed Righteous" |
| 5 | Razan Zaitouneh a human rights advocate in Syria |
Ceremony 2015 "Then and now, the Always Needed Righteous" |
| 4 | Ghayath Mattar Syrian activist killed because of his struggle for democracy |
Ceremony 2015 "Then and now, the Always Needed Righteous" |
| 1 | Rocco Chinnici brave promoter of the first anti-Mafia team of the Palermo courthouse, was killed by the cosche (Mafia group)s |
Ceremony 2015 "Then and now, the Always Needed Righteous" |
| 2 | Italian Coast Guard women and men that risk their lives to save the ones on the run from hunger and violence |
Ceremony 2015 "Then and now, the Always Needed Righteous" |
| 7 | Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli architect of Inter-religious Dialogue |
Ceremony 2014 "Believers and non-believers, the same responsibility" |
| 40 | Beatrice Rohner she protected the Armenian children from genocide |
Ceremony 2014 "Believers and non-believers, the same responsibility" |
| 14 | Nelson Mandela the “giant” of the struggle against apartheid |
Ceremony 2014 "Believers and non-believers, the same responsibility" |
| 12 | Giuseppe Sala organized the rescue of the Jews with the Opera San Vincenzo |
Ceremony 2014 "Believers and non-believers, the same responsibility" |
| 12 | Giovanni Barbareschi founder of OSCAR |
Ceremony 2014 "Believers and non-believers, the same responsibility" |
| 12 | Fernanda Wittgens inspector of Brera who protected both precious art and the persecuted |
Ceremony 2014 "Believers and non-believers, the same responsibility" |
| 10 | Václav Havel leader of the Velvet Revolution |
Ceremony 2013 "Public figures at the service of the common good" |
| 9 | Dimitar Peshev he rescued 48,000 Bulgarian Jews from deportation |
Ceremony 2013 "Public figures at the service of the common good" |
| 38 | Fridtjof Nansen he created a special passport to rescue the stateless and the genocide victims |
Ceremony 2013 "Public figures at the service of the common good" |
| 37 | Samir Kassir journalist and Political Activist |
Ceremony 2013 "Public figures at the service of the common good" |
| 8 | Primo Levi the writer who bore witness to the Holocaust |
Ceremony 2012 "The witnesses of memory" |
| 11 | Claire Ly the Cambodian genocide testimony in Back from Hell |
Ceremony 2012 "The witnesses of memory" |
| 13 | Yolande Mukagasana a survivor and witness from Rwanda |
Ceremony 2012 "The witnesses of memory" |
| 39 | Ayse Nur (Sarisözen) Zarakoglu she was repeatedly jailed in Turkey for bearing witness to the truth about the Armenian genocide |
Ceremony 2012 "The witnesses of memory" |
| 20 | Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn author of The Gulag Archipelago |
Ceremony 2011 "The unheard witnesses" |
| 21 | Romeo Dallaire general who tried in vain to warn the UN about the upcoming genocide in Rwanda |
Ceremony 2011 "The unheard witnesses" |
| 36 | Armin T. Wegner He warned the leaders of his time to stop genocide against the Armenians and the Jews |
Ceremony 2011 "The unheard witnesses" |
| 27 | Sophie Scholl the white rose that stood up to Nazism |
Ceremony 2011 "The unheard witnesses" |
| 24 | Jan Karski he tried in vain to warn the Great Powers about the genocide against the Jews |
Ceremony 2011 "The unheard witnesses" |
| 34 | Giacomo Gorrini he broke the silence in order to bear witness to the Armenian tragedy |
Ceremony 2010 |
| 35 | Enrico Calamai the vice consul who rescued 300 people from the military dictatorship |
Ceremony 2010 |
| 15 | Vasily Grossman in his Life and Fate he denounced the crimes of both communism and nazism |
Ceremony 2010 |
| 25 | Marek Edelman vice commander of the Warsaw insurrection |
Ceremony 2010 |
| 26 | Guelfo Zamboni he opposed the Nazis in order to rescue Italian and Greek Jews |
Ceremony 2010 |
| 18 | Neda Agha Soltan a symbol of Iranian dissent |
Ceremony 2010 |
| 32 | Hrant Dink journalist who promoted dialogue and reconciliation between Turks and Armenians |
Ceremony 2009 |
| 30 | Pierantonio Costa consul and enterpreneur who rescued 375 children during genocide in Rwanda |
Ceremony 2009 |
| 29 | Anna Politkovskaya murdered in Moscow for reporting atrocities in Chechnya |
Ceremony 2009 |
| 28 | Dusko Kondor murdered for testifying about Serb crimes |
Ceremony 2009 |
| 17 | Khaled Abdul Wahab a Tunisian Arab who saved Jewish lives during the Holocaust |
Ceremony 2009 |
| 16 | Italian Righteous among the Nations they helped the Jews by disobeying "racial laws" |
Ceremony 2009 |
| 19 | Andrei Sakharov he defended peace and human dignity in the Gulag |
Special Ceremony 2003 |
| 31 | Moshe Bejski The man who created the Garden of the Righteous |
Ceremony of inauguration 2003 |
| 33 | Pietro Kuciukian fights against negationism and honors the Righteous of the Armenian genocide |
Ceremony of inauguration 2003 |
| 22 | Svetlana Broz cardiologist who told the stories of rescue from the conflict in the former Yugoslavia |
Ceremony of inauguration 2003 |
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The Righteous reported by civil society
Over the years, on the occasion of the Day of the Righteous, many exemplary figures reported by citizens and associations have been remembered. Stories related to Milanese social fabric, to the Righteous who helped the persecuted during the Second World War, but also stories in the context of the crises of our time.
These “Righteous reported by the civil society” have been included in the Virtual Garden - Monte Stella Area, or celebrated during official ceremonies with the delivery of a parchment.
Their stories are collected on Gariwo’s website, so that they can be spread among students and citizens, to strengthen the bond between the Righteous and civil society more and more.
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| Father Girolamo Tagliaferro he welcomed and assisted partisans, Jews and political fugitives, procuring false documents for some of them to reach Switzerland |
Ceremony 2023 |
| Father Paolo Liggeri he worked for the building of the La Casa social assistance center, saving political and Jewish persecuted people |
Ceremony 2023 |
| Ernesto Cattaneo he contributed to the rescue of a Jewish child from Nazi persecution |
Ceremony 2023 |
| Mother Superior Teresa she contributed to the rescue of a Jewish child from Nazi persecution |
Ceremony 2023 |
| Elvira Colombo Cattaneo she contributed to the rescue of a Jewish child from Nazi persecution |
Ceremony 2023 |
| Lodovico Targetti he welcomed fleeing Jews into his home, often accompanying them towards the border with Switzerland |
Ceremony 2023 |
| Father Mussie Zerai Yosief Eritrean priest and activist known as "the angel of refugees" |
Ceremony 2023 |
| Luca Attanasio the Ambassador peacemaker |
Ceremony 2023 |
| Giulia Galletti Stiffoni her cunning and charm save the lives of Mrs. Weiss and other fugitives during one of the periodic fascist searches |
Ceremony 2022 |
| Patriarch Konstantin Kiril with his tenacity, between 1943 and 1944, he prevents the deportation of Bulgarian Jews to the extermination camps |
Ceremony 2022 |
| Achille Castelli the National Councilor of the PNF who saved the persecuted and refused to hand over his employees |
Ceremony 2022 |
| Eugenio Damiani Lombard building contractor who transformed his house into a refuge for anti-fascists |
Ceremony 2021 |
| Alessandro Cofini agricultural entrepreneur from Abruzzo who saved the Jewish family Nathan from persecution |
Ceremony 2021 |
| Giorgio Paglia anti-fascist who saved the lives of Jewish children at the risk of his own |
Ceremony 2021 |
| Maria Lucia Vandone (Cicci) anti-fascist that saved the lives of Jewish children at the risk of her own |
Ceremony 2021 |
| Maria Mascaretti a courageous employee, she put her life on the line to save dozens of Vogherese Jews from persecution |
Ceremony 2021 |
| The Sopianac family The family that hid the Jews on the premises of their company. They helped and saved many Jewish families. |
Ceremony 2021 |
| Erich Eder a young Commanding Officer of the Wehrmacht who saved Jewish families from deportation |
Ceremony 2021 |
| Maurizio Lazzaro de' Castiglioni the general of Mussolini who saved the Jews |
Ceremony 2021 |
| Susanna Aimo housekeeper of the Segre family since the early 1900s, she was ready to take risks for all the members of the family and kept their objects until the war was over |
Ceremony 2021 |
| Francesco Quaianni he worked in favour of antifascists and partisans |
Ceremony 2020 |
| Emily Bayer she gave free hospitality to a Jewish family during the war |
Ceremony 2020 |
| Father Italo Laracca rescuer and reference figure for all those in need during the Second World War |
Ceremony 2020 |
| Carlo Bianchi he dedicated his life helping those in need, saving the Sonnino-Shapira Jewish family from persecution |
Ceremony 2020 |
| Father Andrey Sheptytskyy great opponent of the communist and nazi ideologies |
Ceremony 2020 |
| De Regibus Family they hid and saved a Jewish family |
Ceremony 2020 |
| Leonilde Simonazzi she saved Jews, with courage and disinterest, by helping them to expatriate to Switzerland |
Ceremony 2020 |
| Reinhold Chrystman he saved nearly 700 Jews, including many children |
Ceremony 2020 |
| Carlo Tagliabue he saved thirty Jewish women from Nazi-fascist persecution |
Ceremony 2020 |
| Nella Molinari and Luigi Cortile They saved some families in Milan from Nazi persecution by helping them flee to Switzerland |
Ceremony 2020 |
| Franco Basaglia he has been the main driving force of the real change in psychiatry |
Ceremony 2020 |
| Adélaïde Hautval The doctor who treated the Jews in Birkenau refusing to execute the Nazi orders |
Ceremony 2019 |
| Andrea Angeli Italian UN official who, in besieged Sarajevo, first worked to find and rescue Rosaria Bartoletti |
Ceremony 2019 |
| Maria Bertolini Fioroni The Italian "mother of the house on the mountain" that hosted numerous fugitives during the Second World War |
Ceremony 2019 |
| Father Costantino Frisia Missionary in Rwanda, he rescued some young Tutsi nuns during the hundred days of the Rwanda genocide |
Ceremony 2019 |
| Gerhard Kurzbach A Nazi who became a Righteous among the Nations |
Ceremony 2019 |
| Guido Ucelli di Nemi and Carla Tosi the couple of enlightened enterpreneurs who risked everything to hide some Jews |
Ceremony 2019 |
| Luz Long The German athlete who suggested the winning strategy to his black adversary Jesse Owens, thus becoming a universal symbol of brotherhood among the peoples |
Ceremony 2019 |
| Mons. JP Carroll Abbing Founder of the "Opera Nazionale Per Le Citta' Dei Ragazzi", he devoted his life to the assistance and education of young people without a family |
Ceremony 2019 |
| Giandomenico Picco the "disarmed soldier of diplomacy" |
Ceremony 2019 |
| Sister Leonella Sgorbati Missionary in Kenya and Somalia, for thirty years she engaged in the training of professional nurses |
Ceremony 2019 |
| Vito Fiorino rescuer of refugees in Lampedusa |
Ceremony 2018 |
| Emilia Kamvisi the grandmother of Lesvos |
Ceremony 2018 |
| Stratos Valiamos fisher of men in the Isle of Lesbos |
Ceremony 2018 |
| Melinda McRostie owner of The Captain's Table: the restaurant of Lesvos helping the refugees |
Ceremony 2018 |
| Eric Kempson The English artist who rescues the 'lost souls' of Lesvos. |
Ceremony 2018 |
| Efi Latsoudi Coordinator of the Pikpa Solidarity Camp and winner of 2016 Nansen Refugee Award for her tireless work helping refugees on the Greek island of Lesvos |
Ceremony 2018 |
| Christoforos Schuff the priest "fisher of men" |
Ceremony 2018 |
| Daniela Pompei Responsible of the Sant'Egidio Community's services for migrants |
Ceremony 2018 |
| Maria Quinto Coordinator of the humanitarian corridors and of the migrants services promoted by the Sant'Egidio Community |
Ceremony 2018 |
| The schoolgirls of Rorschach the brave denounce against Helvetic Government's indifference |
Ceremony 2018 |
| Andrea Ghetti co-founder of OSCAR, together with Don Giovanni Barbareschi |
Ceremony 2018 |
| Guglielmo Barbò deported to Flossembürg Camp after having joined the Resistance movement |
Ceremony 2018 |
| Corrado Bonfantini promoter of the socialist ideals of freedom and social justice. |
Ceremony 2018 |
| Erwin Kräutler the rebel bishop, defender of the indigenous peoples and the Amazon forest |
Ceremony 2018 |
| Fritz Michael Gerlich a journalist against Hitler |
Ceremony 2018 |
| Maria Vittoria Zeme the red cross volunteer nurse interned in the nazi lager of Zeithain |
Ceremony 2018 |
| Sister Enrichetta Alfieri the mother of San Vittore |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Albino Badinelli the policeman who turned himself in to the Nazi-Fascists to save 20 hostages and the whole country from the retaliation |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Angelo and Felicita Ballabio milanese spouses who hid in their home a Jewish couple |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Mario Borsa The anti-fascist journalist who defended the independence and freedom of expression |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Father Eugenio Bussa He founded a displacement Colony where he hid several Jewish |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Leonida Calamida The partisan who risked his life delivering false papers to Jewish on the run |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Vittorio Castellani The diplomat who protected the Jews in Croatia |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Ettore Castiglioni He guided and took to safety Jews and political persecuted through Alpine passes |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Sister Donata Castrezzati The Mother Superior who hid several Jews and victims of political persecution in his elder care institute |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Father Francesco Cavazzuti The missionary priest who protected the farmers in Brasil, putting at risk his own life. |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Father Placido Cortese A priest who saved several Jewish refugees and soldiers scattered after September 8, 1943. |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Mbaye Diagne The Senegalese UN Captain who tried to stop the genocide in Rwanda |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Salah Farah He could save him life by declaring himself a Muslim, but he preferred to protect Christians during a terrorist attack in Kenya |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Father Piero Folli A brave priest from the Maggiore Lake |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Piero Gnecchi Ruscone The director of the Opera S. Vincenzo who participated in the Milan rescue network for Jews and others persecuted |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Nadezhda Mandel'shtam Wife of the dissident poet Osip Mandel'shtam |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Majda Mazovec The Slovenian student in Padua, who became a courier of the Resistance to save civilian and military refugees. |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Father Primo Mazzolari A brave priest who stood up to the Nazi. |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Lucillo Merci the captain who helped Guelfo Zamboni rescue Jewish lives |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Giuliano Pajetta The leader of the Resistance who took care of his companions in the lager, risking his life. |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Ubaldo Pesapane The scribe of Flossenburg who helped the Jews |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Antonio Pistocchi Railway engineer who rescued the Jews in Cesena during the Shoah |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Giancarlo Puecher A life dedicated to the homeland, defending the oppressed. |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Angelo and Teresa Tosi They hid eight Jews in Calcinato |
Ceremony 2017 |
| Ferdinando Valletti The football player who saved his fellow prisoners and the painter Aldo Carpi |
Ceremony 2017 |
