Emanuele Artom
Emanuele Artom · Heroes of Israel
Historian and political commissar of the Piedmontese partisans, whose wartime diaries are a primary source for the Italian Resistance.
23 June 1915, Aosta, Italy — 7 April 1944, Turin, Italy
Piedmont, Italy
Emanuele Artom is recognized among Israeli contributors to Heroes of Israel — Historian and political commissar of the Piedmontese partisans, whose wartime diaries are a primary source for the Italian Resistance.
Emanuele Artom came from a cultivated Jewish family of Turin — both his parents were mathematicians — and took his degree in 1937 with a thesis on the fall of the Hasmoneans. With his brother he ran a Jewish cultural circle for the young Jews of Turin. After the German occupation of Italy in September 1943 he joined the partisans in the Piedmontese valleys and became political commissar of the Giustizia e Libertà formations there.
He was captured by the Fascist militia in March 1944, recognised as a Jew, and tortured to death in Turin over three weeks; he died on 7 April 1944. The diaries he kept in the mountains, published after the war, are among the most important first-hand records of the Italian Resistance.
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Historian and political commissar of the Piedmontese partisans, whose wartime diaries are a primary source for the Italian Resistance.
Source: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuele_Artom
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