Reggio Emilia is gearing to remember
the Cervi brothers, eight siblings who formed one of Italy's
first Resistance bands and were executed by the Fascists on
December 28, 1943.
A slew of events are planned in the Emilian city Thursday to
commemorate Gelindo, Antenore, Aldo, Ferdinando, Agostino,
Ovidio and Ettore Cervi, shot by a Fascist firing squad along
with an eighth partisan, Quarto Camurri.
They were caught along with their father Alcide in a Fascist
sweep on November 25.
The eight partisans were executed in retaliation for the
December 27 assassination of the town council secretary at
Bagnolo in Piano, Davide Onfiani.
photo: the brothers' tractor in the Cervi museum
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