Road Victims

A ‘ghost bike’ in Via della Cinta Esterna, a memorial dedicated to road victims.

See also: Ghost Bike - Destroyed Ghost Bike
External links: Ghost bike (Wikipedia)

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Dina and Dino

A few days ago two Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) have been placed in Via della Coroncina, where once lived the 44-year-old Dina Bona Attal and her 21-year-old son Dino Bueno. They were arrested near Lucca in December 1943 and both died in Auschwitz.

See also: Stolpersteine - Not Even One Year - Perla - Isacco Bayona
External links: Stolperstein (Wikipedia) - Dina Bona Attal - Dino Bueno (The names of the Italian Shoah)

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Winged Victory

This “Winged Victory”, by the sculptor Mario Carlesi, stands on the top of the monument to the soldiers fallen in World War I. The memorial was erected in 1925 in Piazza Magenta, which was then renamed Piazza della Vittoria (Victory Square). In background we can see the facade of the church of Santa Maria del Soccorso.

See also: Fallen - Piazza della Vittoria - Santa Maria del Soccorso

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Isacco Bayona

Isacco Bayona was the son of Raffaele Bayona and Diamante Jacob. He was born in Greece, in Thessaloniki, on 21 July 1926. He was arrested in Gabbro (Livorno) with his mother, his elder brother Carlo and his younger sisters Lucia and Dora. They were all deported to the extermination camp of Auschwitz, Isacco was the only one who survived the Shoah.

See also: Stolpersteine - Not Even One Year - Perla - Dina and Dino
External links: Stolperstein - (Wikipedia) - Isacco Bayona (The names of the Italian Shoah)

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Perla

A stolperstein in Via Dario Cassuto, dedicated to Perla Beniacar.

She was born in Livorno on 19 June 1935, the daughter of Moise Beniacar and Estrea Levi, a family that had recently arrived in town from Smirne, Turkey. Perla, which means pearl, was also the name of her paternal grandmother. She had three siblings: Matilde, Bulissa Luisa and Giacobbe Giacomo.
They were all arrested on 21 January 1944 in Borgo a Buggiano (Pistoia) and deported to Auschwitz, where Perla died on 26 February 1944. The only member of her family who survived the Shoah was her sister Matilde.

See also: Stolpersteine - Not Even One Year - Isacco Bayona - Dina and Dino
External links: Stolperstein - (Wikipedia) - Perla Beniacar (The names of the Italian Shoah)

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Not Even One Year

At first I thought it was a mistake in the writing on the stolperstein, but it wasn't: when Franca was “arrested”, deported and killed she wasn't even one year old.

See also: Stolpersteine - Perla - Isacco Bayona - Dina and Dino
External links: Stolperstein (Wikipedia)

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Stolpersteine

Stolperstein literally translates as ‘stumbling stone’ and it is a small stone cube with the top sie covered in brass and etched with the name of a Jew or other victim of the Nazi regime who was deported and killed in a concentration camp. It is usually placed on the sidewalk of the house where they once lived. The dates of their deportation and death are also inscribed on the stone, following a project started by the German artist Gunter Demnig in 1994, when the first stones were placed in Cologne.

Last week four Stolpersteine have been laid in three streets of Livorno.

Two of them are in front of the same building in Via Verdi remembering a father and his twelve year son.

See also: Not Even One Year - Perla - Isacco Bayona - Dina and Dino
External links: Stolperstein - Gunter Demnig (Wikipedia)

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Ghost Bike

These white bikes are called ‘ghost bikes’ and are intended as memorials for bicyclists killed or hit on the street. I saw my first one four years ago in New York City and I was quite impressed by the idea. The sign says “Basta morti sulla strada” (Stop road deaths) and the bicycle is locked at the rack of the Palazzo Granducale, just opposite Town Hall. By the way, please note the thriving weeds all around the place...

External links: Ghost bike (Wikipedia)

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