17.04.2025 - Le Vespe Volano Ancora - March To Commemorate The Quadraro Roundup, 17 April 1944 (127 images)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000b3TIvBYpNCk/t/200/I0000b3TIvBYpNCk.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000vKPlfg7oYK4/t/200/I0000vKPlfg7oYK4.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000ddcwaAy05vE/t/200/I0000ddcwaAy05vE.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000wK6hU7NXLKE/t/200/I0000wK6hU7NXLKE.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00001EnWlsM9_eg/t/200/I00001EnWlsM9_eg.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000jAx5c99BBEQ/t/200/I0000jAx5c99BBEQ.jpg)
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![Francesco Laddaga, President VII Municipio.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00002dYPiA3dJO8/t/200/I00002dYPiA3dJO8.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I000053Nkjx.oW70/t/200/I000053Nkjx.oW70.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000Nekj.oQpirM/t/200/I0000Nekj.oQpirM.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000anOiudS7bSw/t/200/I0000anOiudS7bSw.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000Xsb9ggUxOO4/t/200/I0000Xsb9ggUxOO4.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000ulzM1z8AbZk/t/200/I0000ulzM1z8AbZk.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000cIBSfJAY2Gc/t/200/I0000cIBSfJAY2Gc.jpg)
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![Yousef Salman, President of Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000tUfInyJILVw/t/200/I0000tUfInyJILVw.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000_5u_ewBRKYA/t/200/I0000_5u_ewBRKYA.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000qJjz5rcwOio/t/200/I0000qJjz5rcwOio.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000sHjLKYVL.G8/t/200/I0000sHjLKYVL.G8.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000uDoPdhttx9E/t/200/I0000uDoPdhttx9E.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00000.sW1LnBTic/t/200/I00000.sW1LnBTic.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000jBzwgsJw.8k/t/200/I0000jBzwgsJw.8k.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000OeEvPr19mDw/t/200/I0000OeEvPr19mDw.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00009pOAYdGjosQ/t/200/I00009pOAYdGjosQ.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000vN3gJihvE2s/t/200/I0000vN3gJihvE2s.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000rfEQvMWHCi8/t/200/I0000rfEQvMWHCi8.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000a8xdQxg1Lhg/t/200/I0000a8xdQxg1Lhg.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000Dac158YOrMM/t/200/I0000Dac158YOrMM.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000Is0PTPoeR4E/t/200/I0000Is0PTPoeR4E.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000LrWnF_7Sh.Y/t/200/I0000LrWnF_7Sh.Y.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000JsI3PHVE5m0/t/200/I0000JsI3PHVE5m0.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000g4cMX5f4gGw/t/200/I0000g4cMX5f4gGw.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000Cd3A0crVeZY/t/200/I0000Cd3A0crVeZY.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000QKrUTRxeLBY/t/200/I0000QKrUTRxeLBY.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I000081XG4bXudJU/t/200/I000081XG4bXudJU.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000_CpnhycgKvo/t/200/I0000_CpnhycgKvo.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000UcdCtkICUjk/t/200/I0000UcdCtkICUjk.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000Drcnwb.vW1w/t/200/I0000Drcnwb.vW1w.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000BV54scpKXF0/t/200/I0000BV54scpKXF0.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000jxAlt_e9_.A/t/200/I0000jxAlt_e9_.A.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I000032Be0bojXGM/t/200/I000032Be0bojXGM.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000PoirajR3.3k/t/200/I0000PoirajR3.3k.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000tGczpPsMJqA/t/200/I0000tGczpPsMJqA.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00005PTtfVDXNHE/t/200/I00005PTtfVDXNHE.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000mfFWG.D_m7E/t/200/I0000mfFWG.D_m7E.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000pKIGzWDIcwk/t/200/I0000pKIGzWDIcwk.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000ATedMJXV5b8/t/200/I0000ATedMJXV5b8.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000Yh1nCHbl42Q/t/200/I0000Yh1nCHbl42Q.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000F7yKdCYa7DM/t/200/I0000F7yKdCYa7DM.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000UCJTxZOHvso/t/200/I0000UCJTxZOHvso.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000F6prexTK.D0/t/200/I0000F6prexTK.D0.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000tqbCZ_7KGI0/t/200/I0000tqbCZ_7KGI0.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000EUWvYhRlR5k/t/200/I0000EUWvYhRlR5k.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I000088cLvJwKZnI/t/200/I000088cLvJwKZnI.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000DwG_LHmJ558/t/200/I0000DwG_LHmJ558.jpg)
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![Marina Pierlorenzi, President of ANPI Roma.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/vOoA6<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000CGS_BNNHJKg/t/200/I0000CGS_BNNHJKg.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000h5o65JSBV1s/t/200/I0000h5o65JSBV1s.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00001.OZbiBzcF8/t/200/I00001.OZbiBzcF8.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I000079uGDq.TQqU/t/200/I000079uGDq.TQqU.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000EHH4DWCO29Q/t/200/I0000EHH4DWCO29Q.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000H49NSfVKv9I/t/200/I0000H49NSfVKv9I.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000znbuh5puRRE/t/200/I0000znbuh5puRRE.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000V2lo1GF..6I/t/200/I0000V2lo1GF..6I.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000Jffqw0qfO4A/t/200/I0000Jffqw0qfO4A.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000swZoy9q2xNE/t/200/I0000swZoy9q2xNE.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000415YWdxoqDA/t/200/I0000415YWdxoqDA.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000IhPb4YH86EU/t/200/I0000IhPb4YH86EU.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000jOWYasMJLZc/t/200/I0000jOWYasMJLZc.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000l3f0MWYZ7ec/t/200/I0000l3f0MWYZ7ec.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000hG5bq8EkYBU/t/200/I0000hG5bq8EkYBU.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000i8.7K5Erurk/t/200/I0000i8.7K5Erurk.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000XFuyWqyNuTg/t/200/I0000XFuyWqyNuTg.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00003XQ.tFXfOxU/t/200/I00003XQ.tFXfOxU.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I000022ebjIWMrsM/t/200/I000022ebjIWMrsM.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000CpydMlu8n40/t/200/I0000CpydMlu8n40.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000Jg8XceVAVsQ/t/200/I0000Jg8XceVAVsQ.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00008gG.MTG1Gys/t/200/I00008gG.MTG1Gys.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000OFyVkdVhomU/t/200/I0000OFyVkdVhomU.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000onxJdzmmO60/t/200/I0000onxJdzmmO60.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000CuFnkRlNHhY/t/200/I0000CuFnkRlNHhY.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000lG2LCoa8wZM/t/200/I0000lG2LCoa8wZM.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00008MQCgENRY68/t/200/I00008MQCgENRY68.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000kvXXaZ4AFP4/t/200/I0000kvXXaZ4AFP4.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000im7rcLVEyR0/t/200/I0000im7rcLVEyR0.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00008DzXRwcfp9s/t/200/I00008DzXRwcfp9s.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000zb5KQ2NzK_k/t/200/I0000zb5KQ2NzK_k.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000rNFTs2K4wEU/t/200/I0000rNFTs2K4wEU.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/vOoA6<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000tBELFbC_9TU/t/200/I0000tBELFbC_9TU.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000xFzkrInECDc/t/200/I0000xFzkrInECDc.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000BzijfefNMp8/t/200/I0000BzijfefNMp8.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00001e4dnan8HMY/t/200/I00001e4dnan8HMY.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000Z1fSKxhsM14/t/200/I0000Z1fSKxhsM14.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000HxWQO1axx20/t/200/I0000HxWQO1axx20.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000zTIZ8cGvvGk/t/200/I0000zTIZ8cGvvGk.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000IWzSKGSbVcs/t/200/I0000IWzSKGSbVcs.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000Ltt1UsuLL8c/t/200/I0000Ltt1UsuLL8c.jpg)
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000hYjE4_MG.nc/t/200/I0000hYjE4_MG.nc.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000oJrbk1hLWc0/t/200/I0000oJrbk1hLWc0.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/vOoA6<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000p8FfpJS77aQ/t/200/I0000p8FfpJS77aQ.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000YkrIL1MgVMo/t/200/I0000YkrIL1MgVMo.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000imUC9xQkPEQ/t/200/I0000imUC9xQkPEQ.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000o5_ozqz.OyI/t/200/I0000o5_ozqz.OyI.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000g0QtJPzb5DQ/t/200/I0000g0QtJPzb5DQ.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000hLuiBykYamo/t/200/I0000hLuiBykYamo.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000NRzJosnQyZc/t/200/I0000NRzJosnQyZc.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000Mp5dVPXlJYc/t/200/I0000Mp5dVPXlJYc.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000eZQqnymRAVc/t/200/I0000eZQqnymRAVc.jpg)
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000ytI3ylzt..g/t/200/I0000ytI3ylzt..g.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000IaJlS8si3u4/t/200/I0000IaJlS8si3u4.jpg)
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000P5aNqBmHU30/t/200/I0000P5aNqBmHU30.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000gl3nsoWoGUg/t/200/I0000gl3nsoWoGUg.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00006nNgYRillZ8/t/200/I00006nNgYRillZ8.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000z5r6ukFs0rQ/t/200/I0000z5r6ukFs0rQ.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000NQbHvXugW58/t/200/I0000NQbHvXugW58.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000SbyY6S6GMR8/t/200/I0000SbyY6S6GMR8.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000Iv5MNmC8kwk/t/200/I0000Iv5MNmC8kwk.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000atVxlkBVpb0/t/200/I0000atVxlkBVpb0.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000wi8DrjaWhBw/t/200/I0000wi8DrjaWhBw.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000R0SVePHiduY/t/200/I0000R0SVePHiduY.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00003reG7G.BJzM/t/200/I00003reG7G.BJzM.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000EXVyHJ1nXo8/t/200/I0000EXVyHJ1nXo8.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000M61DDNqoWHk/t/200/I0000M61DDNqoWHk.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000zL75_.ZPiVs/t/200/I0000zL75_.ZPiVs.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000FL4QipNfAYU/t/200/I0000FL4QipNfAYU.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000H4Pv8MbpEEY/t/200/I0000H4Pv8MbpEEY.jpg)
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![Photo not part of the demo: showing surrounding area and people around the event.<br />
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Rome, Italy. 17th Apr, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of WWII Italian Partizans), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004, Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000UPxC_fp9k4w/t/200/I0000UPxC_fp9k4w.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I000071uE5Uvzza8/t/200/I000071uE5Uvzza8.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000kQ_t3pWTks4/t/200/I0000kQ_t3pWTks4.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 17th April, 2025. Today, to mark 81st Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadraro - South-East district of Rome AKA Nido di Vespe / Wasps Nest due to be a fundamental Partizan area - (Roundup of the Quadraro District), ANPI (National Association of Italian Partizans, Members of the Italian Resistance in WWII), VII Municipio di Roma (VII Municipality of Rome), Students, Citizens, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra Party, Partito Comunista Italiano PCI, CGIL Trade Union, CSOA Spartaco, Emergency NGO, and other organizations and movements, held a march from Piazza Dei Consoli to Parco 17 Aprile 1944.<br />
«The roundup of the Quadraro, codenamed Operation Balena, was a military operation by the German troops, assisted by the Gestapo, the SS and the Italian fascist of the banda koch, carried out on 17 April 1944, against the population of the district located on the southern outskirts of Rome, during the Second World War. The popular district of Quadraro was known as a den of partisans, draft dodgers, saboteurs and opponents of the regime. German troops first besieged the neighborhood and, after a round-up in which about two thousand people were arrested, they deported at least 683 to concentration camps in Germany, as shown by the only reliable list of deportees, compiled at the time by the parish priest Don Gioacchino Rey. […] According to the testimony of one of the deportees, Sisto Quaranta, also reported by Sara Menafra, in: Il Quadraro Libero e Resistenza, the total number would amount to 947. The Germans initially planned the elimination of the prisoners, subsequently retreating to their deportation to Germany, transforming them into "volunteer workers" […]» (1.).<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://t.ly/FpAgt & https://t.ly/RBlVo<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000lXJdMst2QEk/t/200/I0000lXJdMst2QEk.jpg)
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