Holocaust Memorials - Monuments, Museums and Institutions in Commemoration of Nazi Victims

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In April 1944 180 partisans died either fighting National Socialists and fascists or by execution. Another 200 partisans were deported to Mauthausen. A large number of other partisans in the area of the Benedicta fell in other battles or during escape attempts. More than 200 partisans were brought to Novi Ligure from where they were deported with transport No. 39 to Mauthausen. The settlement “La Benedicta“ was destroyed by the Germans. The corpses of the murdered partisans who were denied a funeral were not appropriately buried until May 1944.

The Associazione Memoria della Benedicta (Association in Remembrance of the Benedicta), founded in 2003, aims to set up a permanent documentation center in the area of the settlement that was mined and destroyed by the National Socialists.

The association is made up of local organizations including the provinces and districts of Alessandria and Genoa, Partisan associations and cultural institutions.