Albino Pietrogiovanna
* 1924
ALBINO
PIETROGIOVANNA
JG. 1924
ITALIEN
ZWANGSARBEIT
EINGEWIESEN
KRANKENHAUS LANGENHORN
TOT 30.1.1945
Langenhorner Chaussee 625
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Langenhorner Chaussee 625
Albino Pietrogiovanna, born on 28.4.1924 in Piatta Valdisotto, died on 30.1.1945 in Hamburg
Langenhorner Chaussee next to 625, memorial place
On April 28, 1924, Albino Pietrogiovanna was born in Piatta Valdisotto, Sondrio, the son of Angelina, née Canclini, and Isacco Pietrogiovanna. During World War II he was a soldier in the Italian Army and was among the Italian military personnel captured by the Wehrmacht after the fall of Mussolini and the armistice with the Allies in the summer of 1943. Italian soldiers who refused to continue fighting alongside the Germans were taken to Germany for forced labor, along with women and civilian prisoners from the resistance. About 12,500 of them came to Hamburg.
Albino Pietrogiovanna was taken to Hamburg-Langenhorn and forced to perform forced labor for Hanseatische Kettenwerk GmbH (HAK). He was housed in the Tarpenbeck communal camp.
The hospital list records that he was admitted to the Langenhorn Hospital on February 1, 1945, with a diagnosis of "accident." However, the entry in the death notice and death register for the time of death reads January 30, 1945, at 2:45 a.m.
ln the death notice of the hospital, the cause of death is given as "Fracture of skull (r. temple) due to machine accident Internal cranial hemorrhage" and the signing physician is Dr. Saupe.
Albino Pietrogiovanna was 20 years old.
The circumstances of death were not further investigated, so that the exact events remain in the dark.
Six days later, he was buried by the Großhamburgische Bestattungsgesellschaft (GBG) on February 12, 1945 in the Ohlsdorf cemetery, grave location Bi 69, No. 536.
Only on March 15, 1945, after his passport was sent to the Langenhorn Hospital by the Italian liaison officer Nicolò Niseteo of the Italian Liaison Office at the Hauptabteilung Arbeitseinsatz der Gauverwaltung Hamburg der DAF im Besenbinderhof 68, could the information in the death register be supplemented with the entry of his parents' names.
Albino Pietrogiovanna's father had already died. It is not known when his mother, who lived in his birthplace in Italy, learned of her son's death. His remains were moved to the Italian Cemetery of Honor in the main cemetery of Öjendorf in July 1957. A tombstone slab of white Carrara marble with his engraved name and date of birth and death commemorates him, grave location block 5, row M, grave 30.
There is now the honorary complex for Italian military internees from northern Germany who were forced to perform forced labor as prisoners of war. The 5849 graves are maintained by the Italian Consulate General in Hanover, including a memorial for the 20 children from Bullenhuser Damm.
Two children of forced laborers also found their final resting place after reburial on this honorary site, Bianchini Umberto, Block 5, Row M, Grave 38, and Marcello Arnaldo Colombo, Block 4, Row N, Grave 4.
A stumbling block for 700 Italian military internees from the Schützenpforte 11 camp has commemorated these victims since February 13, 2021, in front of the Heinrich Bauer House at Burchardstraße 11.
Translation Beate Meyer