22.04.2023 - Q44 Le Vespe Volano Ancora - March To Commemorate The Quadraro Roundup, 17 April 1944 (89 images)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000VAbw2W6OJFg/t/200/I0000VAbw2W6OJFg.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000lgZLI9DK4Go/t/200/I0000lgZLI9DK4Go.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000MZMgaohSOyQ/t/200/I0000MZMgaohSOyQ.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000oqwSNmg0QMI/t/200/I0000oqwSNmg0QMI.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000zant1UDCxdU/t/200/I0000zant1UDCxdU.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00009jpWpJtkpdw/t/200/I00009jpWpJtkpdw.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000ju72m5_OIMg/t/200/I0000ju72m5_OIMg.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00001.MUehCsGQM/t/200/I00001.MUehCsGQM.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000AEuwKC5Lplw/t/200/I0000AEuwKC5Lplw.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000pAZau5c4rYE/t/200/I0000pAZau5c4rYE.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<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.npjAr1FwwM/t/200/I0000.npjAr1FwwM.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000Pi_pZc9Al1k/t/200/I0000Pi_pZc9Al1k.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000vDhzVDRCtA0/t/200/I0000vDhzVDRCtA0.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00004.BB2GgvNC0/t/200/I00004.BB2GgvNC0.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000rx.Z2djOjH8/t/200/I0000rx.Z2djOjH8.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00004uHFlhWsp14/t/200/I00004uHFlhWsp14.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000xDEs4hZI9hs/t/200/I0000xDEs4hZI9hs.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<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.M.P0WLTFBM/t/200/I0000.M.P0WLTFBM.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000eaw956212fM/t/200/I0000eaw956212fM.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000CgimMHXADws/t/200/I0000CgimMHXADws.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000CFKQjkbatT8/t/200/I0000CFKQjkbatT8.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000CvWni51F0kI/t/200/I0000CvWni51F0kI.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000NWx2KUdsj7s/t/200/I0000NWx2KUdsj7s.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000NDi1mSJf3xA/t/200/I0000NDi1mSJf3xA.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00007rSVXyKvx38/t/200/I00007rSVXyKvx38.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00007_bbL2V6Rn4/t/200/I00007_bbL2V6Rn4.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000AqFnSkv0gDg/t/200/I0000AqFnSkv0gDg.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00008OMuHFy9_V0/t/200/I00008OMuHFy9_V0.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000Bf.AALO3YuI/t/200/I0000Bf.AALO3YuI.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000OzeQOhh25sQ/t/200/I0000OzeQOhh25sQ.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000qRFRw_gRt38/t/200/I0000qRFRw_gRt38.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00004rfylE80c5w/t/200/I00004rfylE80c5w.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000GQy7ZLD.L1U/t/200/I0000GQy7ZLD.L1U.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000C3XA8FZRXCw/t/200/I0000C3XA8FZRXCw.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000SDslfZvqYd4/t/200/I0000SDslfZvqYd4.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000cs.moTjfgHw/t/200/I0000cs.moTjfgHw.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000zV24Y4VZlG0/t/200/I0000zV24Y4VZlG0.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00004NPTdrTn.uE/t/200/I00004NPTdrTn.uE.jpg)
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![Roberto Scialabba https://rb.gy/l45nc .<br />
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Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000Wpl0TRF3EbU/t/200/I0000Wpl0TRF3EbU.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000C27jEpHCZfs/t/200/I0000C27jEpHCZfs.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000LEAQEy77bBo/t/200/I0000LEAQEy77bBo.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000eYeWiU4Nl5M/t/200/I0000eYeWiU4Nl5M.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000aAOyGZ1d7oI/t/200/I0000aAOyGZ1d7oI.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000F25LiwKCsVw/t/200/I0000F25LiwKCsVw.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000vRszYh5w3RU/t/200/I0000vRszYh5w3RU.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000r4PwWhw89o8/t/200/I0000r4PwWhw89o8.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000Nvz32vxkiJc/t/200/I0000Nvz32vxkiJc.jpg)
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![Roberto Scialabba https://rb.gy/l45nc .<br />
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Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000YzBVRltx4vA/t/200/I0000YzBVRltx4vA.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<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_dwiQd_GStE/t/200/I0000_dwiQd_GStE.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000hg1qaNzrO2o/t/200/I0000hg1qaNzrO2o.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000U26ucWjWsnE/t/200/I0000U26ucWjWsnE.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000E1xcohYzL.E/t/200/I0000E1xcohYzL.E.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000oqDthob1SoQ/t/200/I0000oqDthob1SoQ.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<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_Y_K3SjXERA/t/200/I0000_Y_K3SjXERA.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000IUUBOIA1c3A/t/200/I0000IUUBOIA1c3A.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00004hPFqDkyh_c/t/200/I00004hPFqDkyh_c.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000cZFYjwybXio/t/200/I0000cZFYjwybXio.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000CSFb1uL6o30/t/200/I0000CSFb1uL6o30.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00002JnoHS5Aveo/t/200/I00002JnoHS5Aveo.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000RW8GwPoyDGU/t/200/I0000RW8GwPoyDGU.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00002cJMk1cSsuk/t/200/I00002cJMk1cSsuk.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000GLbed3UWykw/t/200/I0000GLbed3UWykw.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000oUdecbfL108/t/200/I0000oUdecbfL108.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000vPf3.xMzTtI/t/200/I0000vPf3.xMzTtI.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000bFfzmF8_jdQ/t/200/I0000bFfzmF8_jdQ.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000ZtU34vTHPfA/t/200/I0000ZtU34vTHPfA.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<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.M1JVFNp67o/t/200/I0000.M1JVFNp67o.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000KSHJa_4qwYw/t/200/I0000KSHJa_4qwYw.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000HsgRlHiszxk/t/200/I0000HsgRlHiszxk.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000I.rmIL3vtmM/t/200/I0000I.rmIL3vtmM.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00004hL1h83LOzA/t/200/I00004hL1h83LOzA.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000MEvjZh_zKqc/t/200/I0000MEvjZh_zKqc.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000LCW6nh_t.ik/t/200/I0000LCW6nh_t.ik.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000wnOxi2MVX_s/t/200/I0000wnOxi2MVX_s.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000ZaexB2xIWSg/t/200/I0000ZaexB2xIWSg.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000fT2huzokiTY/t/200/I0000fT2huzokiTY.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000HKytqhzH2A4/t/200/I0000HKytqhzH2A4.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000FqnZ4FF.r8A/t/200/I0000FqnZ4FF.r8A.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000CMXuukogblc/t/200/I0000CMXuukogblc.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000Z1NFVDqyPx4/t/200/I0000Z1NFVDqyPx4.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000o6nX9iW282Q/t/200/I0000o6nX9iW282Q.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000Fw.xtafvtaE/t/200/I0000Fw.xtafvtaE.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
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Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000oksHdcL3NaM/t/200/I0000oksHdcL3NaM.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I000022DYEqhIvvU/t/200/I000022DYEqhIvvU.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000hN6OlzVlN.Y/t/200/I0000hN6OlzVlN.Y.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000A7rO2UtAX6o/t/200/I0000A7rO2UtAX6o.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I00006eM.R1.AYws/t/200/I00006eM.R1.AYws.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000RM9Pzm8gIwE/t/200/I0000RM9Pzm8gIwE.jpg)
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![Rome, Italy. 22nd April, 2023. Today, to mark 79th Anniversary of the Rastrellamento del Quadradro - 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, CSOA Spartaco, Cinecittא Bene Comune, Rifondazione Comunista Party, Partito Democratico PD, CGIL Trade Union, the Palestinian Community of Rome and Lazio, and other organizations and movements, held a Corteo (demo) from Piazza di Cinecittא 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" […]».<br />
On 17 April 2004 the Quadraro district was awarded the Gold Medal for civil valor.<br />
<br />
Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://rb.gy/yk6df & https://rb.gy/dd21g<br />
Doc: Il Rastrellamento del Quadraro (Source, La Storia Siamo Noi RAI.it ITA) https://rb.gy/j5d60](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000Kr4KiTGeHm8/t/200/I0000Kr4KiTGeHm8.jpg)
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