Franco Barella

Istituto per la storia della ricerca e della società contemporanea in provincia di Alessandria "Carlo Gilardenghi"

 Franco Barella (Lupo) tells the history of his family and his training, his joining the resistance (Division Pinan - Cichero, brg Oreste, dist Vestone) and his daily life in the mountains. They were so emotional for a boy of just 18 years. His witness dwells at length on the relationship between the entrepreneurial, bourgeois class, of which he belonged, and the workers' world. It also emerge from the story of the role played by the PCI in the groups and the description of partisan commanders. 

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Country: IT

Region: Piemonte

City: Novi Ligure

District: AL

Altitude: 197m s.l.m.

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Franco Barella

Year: 1925
School: University
Profession: Pensioner
Languages: Italiano

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Bibliography:

F. Barella, I 600 giorni della guerra di liberazione nelle Valli Borbera, Lemme, Scrivia e Spinti, ANPI, Novi Ligure, 2000;

F. Barella, F. Inverardi, La bottega da ciabattino : testimonianze e documenti, ANPI, Novi Ligure, 1982;  

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Document by: Cecilia Bergaglio
Video by: Franco Castelli, Cecilia Bergaglio, Lucio Laugelli
Created: 02-12-2011

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