Farewell to the ‘partisan courier’ Giacomina Castagnetti

(ANSA) – REGGIO EMILIA, JULY 21 – Partisan courier Giacomina Castagnetti handed away in Reggio Emilia on the age of 98. A protagonist of the Resistance and a witness till her final days, she at all times participated with ardour in Istoreco conferences with colleges to cross on the values ​​of Reminiscence to younger folks. Giacomina was born on November 11, 1925 and beginning in 1940, within the midst of the Second World Warfare, she collected contributions for the so-called ‘Pink Assist’, the clandestine communist assist community that through the Nazi-Fascist regime supported persecuted anti-fascists by gathering contributions, meals and clothes, within the Quattro Castella space. She joined the Resistance after September 8, 1943, within the Girls’s Protection Teams, a ladies’s group created by the Nationwide Liberation Committee. Within the post-war interval, she was additionally a commerce unionist. The province of Reggio Emilia loses one other piece of historical past together with her after the loss of life in current days of the Partisan Alì, aka Giglio Mazzi. (ANSA).