Sant’Anna di Stazzema
Sant‘Anna di Stazzema is a small italian village near Lucca. On August 12, 1944, retreating SS-men rounded up 560 villagers and refugees - mostly women, children and older men - shot them and then burned their bodies. The massacre is considered as one of the most cruel atrocities of world war II. Survivors keep commemoration and established a memorial site.
Tuscany, Italy
Text by Christiane Kohl
Story nominated Egon-Erwin-Kisch-Prize 2000
SZ-Magazin 1999
The village square in front of the church where german SS-personnel burned the dead bodies
Enrico Pieri, survivor
Enio Mancini, survivor
Sant' Anna di Stazzema
Natalina Bottari, survivor
Nicola Bardalacchi, guerrilla fighter and survivor
Found objects from victims