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The Stolpersteine in Marche, Abruzzo and Apulia lists the Stolpersteine in the three Italian regions Marche, Abruzzo and Apulia, all adjacent to the Adriatic Sea. Stolpersteine is the German name for stumbling blocks collocated all over Europe by German artist Gunter Demnig. They remember the fate of the Nazi victims being murdered, deported, exiled or driven to suicide.

Generally, the stumbling blocks are posed in front of the building where the victims had their last self chosen residence. The name of the Stolpersteine in Italian is: pietre d'inciampo. The first Stolperstein in Abruzzo was posed in L'Aquila in January of 2012. It is dedicated to Giulio della Pergola who was the only Jewish victim of the city. The first and only one in Apulia is dedicated to Maggiore Antonio Ayroldi, it was collocated in Corso Cavour of Ostuni in January of 2016.

Nazi bloodshed

The short period of Nazi Germany ruling Italy from September 1943 to April 1945 left major traces of blood and sorrow. Mussolini's Italian Social Republic, a puppet regime under German control. The major victims groups in all Italy, also in these regions, were military personal that did not adhere to the German controlled Italian Social Republic, people of Jewish origin and resistance fighters against the Nazis.

• Many members of the Italian armed forces were disarmed by Nazi troups after the capitulation of Italy on 8 September 1943. They were arrested and deported as Italian military interns (IMI) to Germany, where they had to perform forced labor. The IMI status served to deny them the status of prisoners of war protected by the III. Geneva Convention of 1929. The Italian military internees were mostly treated even worse than the Soviet prisoners through relentless exploitation of their labor force, food deprivation and lack of medical care. Thousands of them were brought to death.
• Shoah
• For most resistance fighters there are monuments and plaques in place since the 1940s. Therefore there is less need to remember them with stumbling stones.

The Stolperstein for Aldo Oberdorfer is an exception as this victim lost his life already in June 1940 in Fascist Italy — not under Nazi rule.

Marche

Ancona, Ostra Vetere

Stone	Name	Location	Life and death
	Ferruccio Ascoli	Corso Giovanni Amendola 51	Ascoli, FerruccioFerruccio Ascoli was born in 1897.[1] CDEC: [2]
		Ostra Vetere Via Giuseppe Mazzini, 42	Morpurgo, GaddoGaddo Morpurgo Gaddo Morpurgo was born in 1920. CDEC: [3] [4][5]
	Giacomo Russi	Via Aurelio Saffi/Largo Dogana	Russi, GiacomoGiacomo Russi was born in 1889. CDEC: [6] [7]
	Sergio Russi	Via Aurelio Saffi/Largo Dogana	Russi, SergioSergio Russi was born in 1923.CDEC: [8]

Abruzzo

The Jews arrived in Aquila just after the foundation of the city at the end of the 13^th century. They settled right in the quarter of Santa Giusta, between via Fortebraccio, via Costa Due Stelle and via Costa Pinciara. The community actively participated in the social and political life of the city, being recognized and having equal rights since an edict of King Ferdinand I of Naples was issued in 1465. The Jews from L'Aquila were active in the banking and commercial sector and were running a hotel within their quarters.

Leone Ginzburg, Natalia Ginzburg

The Mussolini regime already had banished unwanted intellectuals such as Leone Ginzburg to the mountains of the Abruzzi. The scholar and writer, his wife Natalia Ginzburg, also a writer, and their three children lived in Pizzoli from 1940 to 1943. They lived in poverty and suffered from the hard winters, but they survived. This changed dramatically, when the Nazis took control of large parts of Italy after 8 September 1943. While Leone Ginzburg was kept interned and tortured by the Gestapo in Regina Coeli prison in Rome, his wife, Jewish and communist, activated her contacts with Amalia Agnelli, catholic and conservative, owner of a well-established bookstore in L'Aquila. With the help of Carlo Confalonieri, at that time archbishop of the city, the two women managed to organize shelter for many Jews escaping from the Nazi raids in Rome. The order of clergyman Confalonieri, a long-time secretary to the Pope and Vatican insider, was very precise:

″Transfer secretly to L'Aquila all the Jews escaped from the ghetto of Rome and all who are in the monasteries or convents of Rieti.″

This message was delivered by priests on bicycles, but only to trustworthy church officials and private families ready to take in victims of the persecution. How dangerous this endeavor was for all participants is shown by the fate of writer Leone Ginzburg, tortured to death in Rome, of priest Pietro Pappagallo, shot at the Ardeatine massacre, and of shopkeeper Giulio Della Pergola, gassed in Auschwitz.

L'Aquila, Chieti, Teramo

Stone	Inscription	Location	Life and death
Stolperstein probably removed	HERE LIVED GIULIO DELLA PERGOLA BORN 1895 ARRESTED 13.1.1944 DEPORTED AUSCHWITZ MURDERED 6.2.1944	L'Aquila, Piazza Duomo, 62	Della Pergola, GiulioGiulio Della Pergola was the only known Jewish victim of L'Aquila. He was born on 6 August 1895 in Florence. His parents were Raffaello Della Pergola and Emilia Todeschini. He was a volunteer in World War I and was decorated with the medaglia d’argento, a Medal of Military Valor. He married Ada Coen and took over the shop of her family in L'Aquila, a store for fabrics and clothes, situated in Piazza del Duomo, right in the center of the city. He was arrested in his shop all on a sudden on 13 January 1944, although the boys of the city regularly stood guard to warn the Jews of the arrival of Nazis. He was then deported to Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered there by the Nazi regime on 6 February 1944. The collocation of the Stolperstein was initiated by his granddaughter Fausta Carli Finzi and by Guido Coen, a great grandson of his widow, Ada Coen. Family members and friends from Torino, Milan, Rome, Terni and Jerusalem were present at the ceremony as well as the mayor of the city and other officials. A great grandson of Giulio Della Pergola read a letter of grandson Corrado Vivanti.
	HERE TAUGHT GIULIO ALDO OBERDORFER BORN 1885 ARRESTED 11.6.1940 MILANO INTERNED IN CAMP LANCIANO DEAD 14.9.1941	Chieti, Via Umberto Ricci 22	Oberdorfer, AldoAldo Oberdorfer was born in 1885 in Trieste. He became a teacher at Chieti's istituto tecnico in 1915. After the implementation of racial laws by Fascist Italy in 1938, he was forced to quit his job. Together with him also colleagues Alberto Schuhmann and Giulia Volterra were removed from the teaching staff. On 11 June 1940 Aldo Oberdorfer was arrested in Milan and thereafter deported to an internment camp in Lanciano. There he died on 14 September 1941. The Stolperstein was posed in front of his former school, the Istituto tecnico commerciale Galiani.
	HERE LIVED ALBERTO PEPE BORN 1910 I.M.I. CAPTURED 15.9.1943 WIETZENDORF MURDERED 4.4.1945 UNTERLÜSS	Teramo, Via Cavour 2	Pepe, AlbertoAlberto Pepe was born on 6 September 1910 in Teramo. His parents were Camillo Pepe and Anna Bellomo. He was married to Rosa Polidori. In World War II he served in the Italien army. On 15 September 1943 he was arrested by German forces in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Thereafter he was deported to the concentration camps of Deblin, Lathen, Wesurve, Wietzendorf and finally in the concentration camp of Unterlüss, where he was tortured on 4 April 1945 Unterlüss's martyrdom for refusing to collaborate with the Germans.[9] , 44 eroi di Unterlüss

Apulia

Apulia, the southeastern region of Italy, was spared from Nazi occupation, and therefore from the persecution and massmurder of Jews. But there were very few Jews in this region since the 15^th century as they were forced to emigration by the Spanish kings and their allies. Nevertheless, Apulia lost several of it's inhabitants to Nazi crimes — mainly soldiers that refused to adhere to Mussolini's Italian Social Republic under German control, but also partisans that fought the Nazi regime in the Northern parts of Italy such as Antonio Ayroldi.

Ostuni

Image	Inscription	Location	Life and death
	HERE LIVED ANTONIO AYROLDI BORN 1906 ARRESTED 2.3.1944 SHOT 24.3.1944 FOSSE ARDEATINE	Ostuni Corso Cavour 52	Ayroldi, AntonioAntonio Ayroldi Ayroldi was born in 1906.

Dates of collocations

The Stolpersteine in these three regions were collocated by Gunter Demnig personally on the following dates:

• 12 January 2012: L'Aquila (Abruzzo)
• 10 January 2016: Ostuni (Apulia)
• 12 January 2016: Chieti and Teramo (Abruzzo)
• 12 January 2017: Ancona and Ostra Vetere (Marche)

See also

• List of cities by country that have stolpersteine
• Stolpersteine in Italy

External links

• stolpersteine.eu, Demnig's website
• Resistenza – Widerstand in Italien: Erste Stolpersteine in Venedig, 6 March 2014

References

Marche, Abruzzo and Apulia XCategory:Holocaust memorials Stolpersteine XCategory:Holocaust commemoration