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Milan, February 27 2023 - After the 12 stumbling blocks placed on 23 January, another 13 will be placed in memory of the same number of Milanese deported and murdered in the Nazi concentration camps, bringing the number of "stumbling blocks" encountered in Milan to 171. 

Two stones will be placed in Town Hall 2 Monday 6 March 2023, dedicated to Ambrogio Campi (in via Atene 3 at 09:30) e Mario Madè (in via Abbadesse 25 at 11 am).

• AMBROGIO CAMPI - born in Turro (MI) on 22/12/1902 - arrested 24/11/1943 - murdered in Ebensee on 25/02/1945 

Ambrogio Campi was born in Turro (MI) on 22 December 1902, son of Fortunato Campi and Monica Lodi. From 1923 to 1924 he was on military service on the Isonzo and retired with the rank of infantry corporal. Upon returning, he married Emilia Restelli and they had a daughter, Germana, born on 16 October 1931. In 1939 he was called up to arms but, due to a bilateral inguinal hernia, he was reformed and obtained unlimited discharge. Ambrogio works as a driver at Oleodinamica Magnaghi in Crescenzago, in via Stamira d'Ancona 27. The founder Ermenegildo Magnaghi (Milan, born in 1896) was an industrialist who did not submit to the rules of the fascist regime, and in fact many of his employees were young people without the Fascist Party card. Many of them, starting from 1943, became partisans and among these also Ambrogio who joined the 130th Garibaldi Brigade since its establishment, active especially in the Turro area and which in fact occupied the Magnaghi factory on 25 April 1945. Campi, nom de guerre Ambro, transported and distributed weapons, ammunition and clandestine press, but on 24 November 1943 he was arrested and transferred to San Vittore. From here he was deported on 4 March 1944 to Mauthausen, where he arrived on 13 March (transport no. 33, serial number 57557): he died in the Ebensee subcamp on 25 February 1945.

• MARIO MADE - born in Milan on 26/12/1928 - arrested on 12/03/1944 - murdered in Gusen in May 1945.

Mario Madè was born in Milan on 26 December 1928, son of Davide Madè, the first and only son with 5 sisters (Gabriella, Giovanna, Maria Grazia, Silvana and Elena, the last 2 born after Mario's death). A 15-year-old apprentice electrician at Breda, he joined the strike of March 1944 and for this reason the Nazis captured him on 12 March. Incarcerated in San Vittore, he was then transferred to Bergamo, to the Umberto 1st Barracks, called "Colleoni" during the RSI period. During the conflict, this barracks hosted German police and RSI soldiers and became a place of detention for 807 workers arrested after the strikes in the factories of the Northern industrial triangle of March-April 1944. The workers were locked in the rooms overlooking Vicolo San Giovanni and from there they dropped notes for their loved ones, many of which were collected by the citizens of Bergamo and sent. On 17 March 1944, with transport no. 34, 573 prisoners left the station after having crossed the city; among them also Mario Madè who arrived in Mauthausen on 20 March, serial number 58950. On 24 March he was transferred to Gusen where he died in May 1945.

The Stumbling Stone Committee - Milan and institutional figures from Municipality 2 will be present at the laying ceremony.

Complete itinerary 2nd day of installation (13 total stumbling blocks, on 9 addresses)  

For info: pietradinciampomilano@gmail.com