Rome bids farewell to last survivor of Nazi prison on Via Tasso

“Hi Iole, we will miss you to death.” This is how the ANPI announced, in a Facebook post, the death of Iole Mancini, the last living partisan who witnessed the Nazi horrors of Via Tasso. Iole Mancini died in the Capital, she was 104 years old. (BEND)

Questioned several times by the executioner of the Fosse Ardeatine, after her capture she kept silent, protecting those who had escaped the occupants.

The partisan Iole Mancini, the last survivor of the prison in Via Tasso — the Roman prison where the SS locked up the anti-fascists — and the historical memory of the Resistance, died at 104 years old. This was announced by the ANPI with a message on social networks: “Hi Iole, we will miss you to death,” the association of partisans writes on its account. Soon after, she also published a poem: “Iole always a girl who put up with blood and made i…

He had participated in the Resistance in Rome as a relay race. She left at 104 years old. He had told his story in the book 'A Partisan Love'

Rome bids farewell to last survivor of Nazi prison on Via Tasso

Rome mayor pays tribute to Iole Mancini who died aged 104. Iole Mancini, the last surviving Italian partisan to experience the horrors of the Nazi prison on Via Tasso in Rome, died on Monday at the age of 104. The jail in the city's San Giovanni district - today the Museum of the Liberation of Rome - was used as the Gestapo headquarters during the Nazi occupation of the capital in the second world war. A courier for the resistance group GAP (Gru…

“The partisan Iole Mancini is gone. On behalf of myself and on behalf of the entire democratic community, I express my deepest condolences. Relay in Rome, she was the last survivor of the horror and torture of Via Tasso. She left at 104 years old. A whole life on the right side: that of freedom and of the anti-fascist Constitution.” So in a note the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein. “In recent months, it has often happened to us to…