Execution of Elio Indri e Giovanni Peccia

Execution of Elio Indri e Giovanni Peccia

At dawn, two partisan helpers drafted into the Landschutz are executed by a firing squad commanded by a men in fascist uniform. Barbed wire and part of the ramparts of the Palmanova fortress are prominently featured. A church is visible in the background.

Label reads “175”, signed by the author, caption reads “PALMANOVA. Novembre 1944 - Febbraio 1945. Dal racconto di Elio Tinon da Talmasson UD: i patrioti Indri Elio da S. Giorgio di Nongaro UD, e Peccia Giovanni da Cervignano che pur militando nella Landschutz, erano in contatto con le nostre formazioni, sono stati fucilati sui bastioni di Palmanova, mentre tentavano di fuggire dall’arsenale, dal Borsatti il 9 Ottobre, i loro corpi non furono piu’ ritrovati.”

Caption translates as: “Palmanova, November 1944-February 1945. From the account of Tinon Elio from Talmassons (Udine province): the two patriots Elio Indri from San Giorgio di Nogaro (Udine province) and Peccia Giovanni from Cervignano who, although being members of the Landschutz militia of territorial defense, supported out units. They were shot by lieutenant Borsatti on the bastions in Palmanova while they were escaping from the arsenal on 9 October 1944. Their bodies were never found.”

One tempera on paper, pasted on mount board

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