Leopoldo Faretra, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian physician
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Place of Birth: Grottaminarda, Campania, Italy
About Leopoldo Faretra
- Leopoldo Faretra (Grottaminarda, 1 February 1908 – Passo Eclano, 25 May 2001) was an Italian physician.
- He devoted his life to those in need of care and was strongly opposed to his political ideals.
- From 2 November 1943 to 13 April 1945 directed the Infirmary in Italian concentration camp in Hemer, in the northwest of Germany, in which he worked a resistance unarmed, allowing them to escape the German heavy work in the hundreds of Italians.
- On 3 September 1944, Faretra was reported to the Gestapo for propagating anti-German propaganda and to have caused the failure of the request for voluntary cooperation by the Germans advanced to the Italian military infirmary run by him.
- After his death, 16 March 2010 he was awarded the Medal of Honor due to him as an Italian citizen deported to a concentration camp Nazi.
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