Norma Cossetto

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Norma Cossetto
Visinada, Italy (present-day Vižinada, Croatia
)
DiedOctober 4–5 1943
Villa Surani, Italy
Cause of deathHomicide by pushing
Body discoveredOctober 1943
OccupationStudent
Known forMurder victim
ParentGiuseppe Cossetto

Norma Cossetto

foiba
.

Life

The Cossetto family lived in the hamlet of Santa Domenica in

Fascist National Party: he had held several posts and also served as podestà (mayor) of Visinada. He enlisted to the Voluntary Militia for National Security and, after the Armistice between Italy and the Allies was made public on 8 September 1943, he was deployed to Trieste.[3]

Norma had attended the Regio Liceo Vittorio Emanuele III in

Parenzo.[4] During the summer of 1943, she was writing her degree thesis, Istria rossa ("Red Istria", in reference to the rich ores of reddish bauxite
in Istria), and she would tour the surrounding villages and parsonages with her cycle in order to collect information about her dissertation.

Capture and assassination

As later testified by Licia Cossetto, Norma's sister, their family began to receive threats after the 8 September Armistice; on the 25 September, their home was plundered by Yugoslavian and Italian resistance fighters.

Fascism. However, one of her keepers decreed to let her go.[7]

On the 27 September, she was detained again and brought to the former

Antignana. In the school, Cossetto was kept apart from the other prisoners, tied to a table, and repeatedly tortured and raped by her captors.[6][8] This was later reported to Licia Cossetto by a woman who lived in front of the school.[citation needed] Between 4 and 5 October, the prisoners were bound with wire, forcibly walked to Villa Surani, and thrown in the nearby foiba.[9] The three female prisoners were again raped on the spot[6] before they were thrown in the foiba.[6] After a few days, Licia Cossetto was arrested by the resistance and invited to join their movement; just like her sister, she refused. One of the fighters, an acquaintance of Licia, pleaded for her release.[10] The foiba where Norma was thrown is near Pirano in what is now Slovenian Istria. Other foibe were found nearby, with hundreds of corpses (including those of Albina, Caterina and Fosca Radecchi, and Amalia Ardossi), both Italians and non, fascists and antifascists.[11]

After the Second World War, Cossetto's death has been considered emblematic of

University of Padova conferred to her the laurea "honorary"[12] and in 2005 the Italian President Ciampi awarded her the "Medaglia d'oro al merito civile".[13] In February 2010 she was commemorated during the National Memorial Day of the Exiles and Foibe. In July 2011, the cities of Trieste and Narni (Terni) dedicated streets to her memory, followed by Rome in 2015.[14]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The name is occasionally miscited as " Norma Corsetto"
  2. ISBN 88-17-00562-2
    (in Italian)
  3. ^ Sessi, 31.
  4. ^ Sessi, 17.
  5. ^ Sessi, 38-39.
  6. ^ a b c d Petacco, 61.
  7. ^ a b Sessi, 18.
  8. ^ Sessi, 19.
  9. ^ Sessi, 128.
  10. ^ Sessi, 46.
  11. ISBN 9780802039217
    – via Google Books.
  12. ^ "NORMA COSSETTO: la questione della laurea honoris causa alla memoria riconosciutale dall'Università di Padova. – Comitato Provinciale di Venezia" (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  13. ^ "Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana". www.quirinale.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  14. ISBN 978-1-4875-0402-1
    .

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