Rosetta Stame, the daughter of
Ardeatine massacre victim and partisan fighter Ugo, passed away
on Wednesday.
She was the head of the Families of Italian Martyrs of
Freedom Association and, as the Democratic Party (PD) noted in a
statement of condolence, "every year she read off the names of
the victims of the Ardeatine massacre as part of a message
addressed to the head of state, in the memorial in which the
massacre is commemorated".
The massacre at the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome on March 24,
1944 was an act of revenge perpetrated by German occupying
forces, who killed 335 Italians in retaliation for a partisan
attack in Rome the previous day against German SS police forces.
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