Carlo Angela
Carlo Angela (9 January 1875 – 3 June 1949) was an Italian doctor, who has been recognized as a "Righteous Among the Nations" for his efforts during World War II in saving Jewish lives. He is the father of TV journalist and science writer Piero Angela and grandfather of Alberto Angela.
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Early life
Angela was born a Olcenengo, Province of Vercelli.
He graduated with a degree in medicine in 1899 at the University of Turin. In Paris he attended the Neuropsychiatry courses held by Babinski. During World War I he was an officer of the Italian Red Cross at the "Vittorio Emanuele III" Territorial Hospital of Turin.
Political activity
He joined politics after
After the murder of Giacomo Matteotti, in June 1924, Carlo Angela openly blamed the fascists from the pages of the weekly paper Tempi Nuovi.
Humanitarian actions
The government's reaction to this article was to set the newspaper's office on fire and Angela fled to San Maurizio Canavese. There, he became health director of the clinic for mental diseases "Villa Turina Amione". It was there that Angela offered a safe haven to numerous antifascists and Jews during the German Occupation and the Repubblica Sociale Italiana, by forging the medical cards to justify their stay inside the clinics. He diagnosed patients incorrectly and changed names or nationalities.[1] In his rescue he was helped by Vice-Director dr. Brun, by sister Tecla and by the nurses Fiore De Stefanis, Carlo and Sante Simionato. As suspected by the fascist police, Mr. Angela was summoned and interrogated in Turin and he also ran the risk of being shot during a retaliation.
After World War II
During the Liberation, Carlo Angela was appointed mayor of
He also became the President of the Molinette hospital in Turin.
He was initiated in
He died in 1949. On 8 June it was afforded the related ritual in the Temple of "Propaganda".[4]
Medal of "Righteous among the Nations"
The necessary requirements for a man to be acknowledged as a "Righteous" are three: saving Jews, doing so under the threat of a serious life risk, and never getting any reward for this.
The deeds of Angela remained unknown for more than 25 years because of his family's reserve, and were only revealed in 1995, when Anna Segre decided to publish the diary of her father Renzo, written during the time when he had escaped the extermination camps together with his wife Nella in the clinic "Villa Turina Amione"[5]
Based on the evidence and the testimonies collected and presented to it, on 29 August 2001 an Israeli committee awarded Professor Angela the Medal as a
Since 3 June 2000, a street holds the name of Carlo Angela in San Maurizio Canavese and a plaque was put up over entrance of the Town Hall.
References
- ^ Anna Malvezzi "Carlo Angela, a 'Righteous Gentile'" The International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation
- ISBN 8839562478.
- ^ Brunetta, F. (26 January 2013). "Carlo Angela, medico, massone, "Giusto tra le Nazioni"". GOI (in Italian). Archived from the original on 17 June 2017.
- ^ "Carlo Angela". L'Acacia Massonica (in Italian). Vol. III, no. 7. 1949. p. 196..
- ^ Renzo Segre, Venti mesi [Twenty Months] (Sellerio: Palermo 1995).
- Holocaust, at Yad Vashemwebsite
Sources
- Segre, Renzo (1995). Venti mesi. Palermo: Sellerio.
- Gutman, Israel; Bracha Rivlin; Liliana Picciotto (2006). I giusti d'Italia: i non ebrei che salvarono gli ebrei, 1943-45. Milan: Mondadori. pp. 18–19.
- Liguori, Pier Francesco (1999). Percorsi della memoria - Storia della Croce Rossa a Torino - Parte I: 1864-1956. Editrice Morra. pp. 51–52.
- Pacifici Noja, Ugo G. and Silvia (2010). Il cacciatore di giusti: storie di non-ebrei che salvarono i figli di Israele dalla Shoah. Cantalupa Torinese: Effatà.