The evening my grandfather came back from the war in Russia, he ate paniscia (traditional risotto recipe from Novara) and gorgonzola. The very same night, he joined the partisans in Val d'Ossola fighting against Nazi-Fascism (Photo: Battaglia delle Casse, Val Formazza, 1944)
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Today is Liberation Day in Italy: Liberation from the Nazi-Fascist oppression. On this day, we also remember the sacrifice of young partisans who died for our freedom—my grandfather came back, many didn't.
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Italian Partisan Women
Irma Bandiera (1915–1944) was a member of the seventh Gruppo di azione patriottica. In 1944, she was captured, blinded, and killed
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Prosperina 'Lisetta' Vallet, partisan in the autonomous partisan brigade of the Vertosan Valley, Aosta Valley, and wife of partisan Rino Mion, who fought alongside her under the codename 'Fulmine' (November, 1944)
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