Partisan Aldo Giacomini. Growing up in an anti-fascist family.

• raccontato da Aldo Giacomini | 1925
• caricato da ANPI Brescia | 07/12/2015

Growing up in an anti-fascist family harassed by Mussolini's regime.

Aldo Giacomini (born 1925) joined the Italian Resistance on the mountains near Lake Garda in the winter of 1943.

In the spring, 1944, he moved to Brescia, where he joined an urban fighting unit, the "X Giornate" Brigade, belonging to the Green Flames (Catholic-inspired partisans.)

After the Liberation, Aldo Giacomini was awarded recognition as a 'fighting partisan' from March 1st, 1944, to April 25th, 1945.

(In Italian and Brescia's dialect, with English subtitles.)

To watch other interviews with this partisan, search for "Aldo Giacomini".

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