Garden of Trevi

Trevi

City Council of young people with the mayor of Trevi, Bernardino Sperandio, the headmistress Simona Perugini and the education councelor Dalila Stemperini

On 27 May 2017, in occasion of the closing ceremony of the City council of young people of Trevi, the Garden of the Righteous of Trevi has been inaugurated inside Villa Fabri.

Members of the City council of young people have adopted eleven Righteous, choosing their own figure according to their personalities and their ideas of who are the Righteous. Their names have been carved on a copper plaque, realised by Art professor Maurizio Di Francesco.

The mayor of Trevi Bernardino Sperandio, the headmistress Simona Perugini, the mini mayor of the City Council of young people Gaia Cimarelli, minority counsellor of the City Council of young people Riccardo Paradisi, students and parents attended the ceremony.

27 May 2017

Garden of Trevi

Copper plaque, made by Arts professor Maurizio Di Francesco

Figures honoured in this Garden

Flavia Agnes
a lawyer for women’s rights, writer and activist of gender issues
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
Enrico Angelini [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous]
Vittorio Arrigoni [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous - biography on external website]
Antonia Arslan [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous - biography on external website]
she wrote "The Lark Farm" about the Armenian Genocide
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Vittorio Bachelet [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous]
he was a Democratic lawyer and politician; he was assassinated by the Brigate Rosse for its efforts to combat terrorism
Valter Baldaccini [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous]
promoter of projects in support of the most fragile
Lina Berellini
Young girl, she risked her life to protect the two children of the Calef's family, Fiorella and Sergio, from Jewish persecution and war
Pietro Bonilli [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous]
founder of the "Suore della Sacra Famiglia di Spoleto"
Father Aldo Brunacci
Italian priest, he was acknowledged as Righteous among the Nations in Yad Vashem
Michele Caccamo [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous]
publisher, poet and writer
Leonida Calamida
The partisan who risked his life delivering false papers to Jewish on the run
Franco Chianelli and Luciana Cardinali [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous]
founders of the Committee for life “Daniele Chianelli”, association of voluonteers to gain funds for medical research
Father Luigi Ciotti [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous]
Italian priest, founder of support groups for drug addicts
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous - biography on external website]
the first women in the world to receive an academic degree from a university
Massimo Del Bene [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous]
Surgeon, he reconstructs the hands of migrants devastated by torture in Libyan concentration camps
Desmond Doss [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous]
US corporal who served as a combat medic, he was the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor for actions above and beyond the call of duty.
Agostino Falchetti and Clementina Martifagni
Righteous Among the Nations
Sister Marcella - Filomena Feliziani [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous]
she hepls poor people in Guatemala
Vittorio Formentano [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous]
Italian doctor, founder of the Italian Blood Volunteers Association
Mahatma Gandhi
Leader of the India independence movement against British rule, employing nonviolent civil disobedience
Reginald and Margaret Green [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous]
Primo Levi
the writer who bore witness to the Holocaust
Iqbal Masih [biography on external website]
Giuseppe Moscati [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous]
Italian doctor, canonized by the Catholic church, he was named "Doctor of the poor"
Valentine Muller
Military Governor of Assisi in 1943, his role was important for the rescue of some Jewish people and of the cultural heritage of the city
Rufino Niccacci [biography on external website]
the franciscan, Righteous Among the Nations, who worked with Gino Bartali to save Jews
Stanislav Evgrafovič Petrov
In 1983 he averted a nuclear war between Soviet Union and Unites States following a false alarm after the launch of an American missile
Giovanna Pierotti [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous]
Father Pino Puglisi
the priest killed by the Mafia in 1993
Andrea Riccardi [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous - biography on external website]
the founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio
Guglielmina Roncigli and Peter Staudacher [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous]
symbol of reconciliation after the nazi massacre of 22 June 1944
Franco Santocchia [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous]
He was a partisan, he got captured, incarcerated, and finally transferred to Mauthausen, where he died.
Irena Sendler
the Polish nurse who saved 2500 Jewish children
Andrei Sinyavsky
he wrote stories, short novels and fiercely satirical essays on the state of affairs in the Soviet Union
Gino Strada [biography on external website]
Founder of Emergency
Walter Tobagi [the figure disagrees with the criteria proposed by Gariwo for the choice of the Righteous]
italian writer assassinated by terrorists
Franca Viola [biography on external website]
the first woman in Italy who refused the "rehabilitating marriage"
Malala Yousafzai
youngest winner of the Nobel peace prize, she is knowned for her activities for civil rights

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