Stumbling Stones Via Goffredo Mameli 47

These memorial stones (Stolpersteine, pietre d'inciampo, or stumbling blocks) commemorate:
* Giacomo Spizzichino, born 1920, arrested 1 January 1944, deported to Mauthausen, murdered 19 April 1945.
* Eugenio Spizzichino, born 1918, arrested 6 May 1944, deported to Auschwitz, murdered in an unknown place after 20 January 1945.

Giacomo and Eugenio Spizzichino were brothers. Their father died before the war in 1925 and their mother lived until 1960. Information is not known for two of their brothers; the third lived until 1987.

Giacomo apparently did not marry. Eugenio married Ermelinda Di Porto, who survived the war (1918-2006); they had a son born in 1942, Mario Spizzichino.

The small brass plaques, in the pavement in front of houses of which the (mostly Jewish) residents were persecuted or murdered by the Nazis, mention the name, date of birth and place (mostly a concentration camp) and date of death.

In many other cities, mainly in Germany but also in other European countries, the memorials also can be found. There are already many thousands of these plaques and their number is still counting. Almost all Stolpersteine are laid by the German artist himself, Gunter Demnig.

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