The 26 deported « StepbyStep

The 26 deported

Adele Regina Segre, house wife from Moretta (Cuneo County)
born July 24 1886,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on December 4th 1943
(She will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz at an unknown date)

Anetta Levi, house wife from Saluzzo (Cuneo County)
born February 2nd 1888,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on December 4th 1943
(She will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz at an unknown date)

Delfina Ortona, teacher from Casale Monferrato (Asti County)
born November 11th 1904,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on December 5th 1944
(She will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz on February 26 1944)

Ida Loris nee Moscati, widow, house wife from Pesaro
born November 29 1886,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on December 5th 1943
(She will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz at an unknown date)

Spartaco Segre, engineer from Torino,
born September 15th 1902,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on December 7th 1943
(He’ll remain in Fossoli, will be then deported to Buchenwald and will survive the Holocaust)

Lelio Levi, watch maker from Busca (Cuneo County)
born August 7th 1921,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on December 23rd 1943,
(He will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz after April 20th 1944)

Ugo Jaffe, accountant from Casale Monferrato (Asti County)
born May 31st 1910,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on January 7th 1944,
(He will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz on August 5th 1944)

Guglielmo Valabrega, salesman from Rome
born October 4th 1888,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on January 9th 1944,
(He will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz during the month of June 1944)

Giuseppina Valabrega, house wife from Casale d’Alba (Cuneo County)
born July 28th 1887,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on January 9th 1944,
(She will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz at an unknown date)

Franco Valabrega, student from Torino
born December 3rd 1924,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on January 9th 1944,
(He will depart from Fossoli with train # 8 and will perish in Buchenwald on February 7th 1945)

Walter Greve, factory owner from Strasbourg (France)
born March 9th 1883,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on January 22nd 1944,
(He will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz on February 26 1944)

Evelyn Greve, student from Strasbourg (France)
born July 1st 1930,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on January 22nd 1944,
(She will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz at an unknown date)

Carmen Lattes nee Segre, wealthy lady from Boves (Cuneo County)
born December 11th 1894,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on January 24th 1944,
(She will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz on February 26 1944)

Eleonora Levi, house wife from Saluzzo (Cuneo County)
born November 28th 1913,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on January 24th 1944,
(she will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz at an unknown date)

Gemma Levi, house wife from Saluzzo (Cuneo County)
born July 3rd 1879,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on January 24th 1944,
(She will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz on February 26 1944)

Regina Levi, house wife from Saluzzo (Cuneo County)
born December 3rd 1910,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on January 24th 1944,
(She will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz at an unknown date)

Elia Levi, clerk from Saluzzo (Cuneo County),
born October 7th 1910,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on January 24th 1944,
(He will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz at an unknown date)

Alda Levi, house wife from Casale Monferrato (Asti County)
Born January 3rd 1908,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on January 24th 1944,
(She will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz at an unknown date)

Levi Angela, house wife from Casale Monferrato (Asti County)
born July 5th 1910,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on January 24th 1944,
(She will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz at an unknown date)

Lattes Decima, house wife from Saluzzo (Cuneo County)
born January 5th 1887,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on Januray 24th 1944
(She will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz at an unknown date)

Anna Segre nee Lattes, widow house wife from Saluzzo (Cuneo County)
born July 4th 1880,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on January 24th 1944,
(She will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz on February 26 1944)

Pia Clelia Levi, house wife from Saluzzo (Cuneo County)
born May 17th 1899,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on January 26th 1944,
(She will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz at an unknown date)

Amelia Levi, house wife from Busca (Cuneo County)
born May 30th 1927,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on January 26th 1944,
(She will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz at an unknown date)

Beniamina Levi, house wife from Mondovì (Cuneo County)
Born February 20th 1919,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on January 26th 1944,
(She will depart from Fossoli with the train # 8 and will die in Auschwitz on January 27th 1945 shortly after the camp’s liberation)

Riccardo Hess, from Seibarsbach, (Germany)
born May 2nd 1911,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on January 28th 1944
(He’ll stay in Fossoli, will be then deported to Buchenwald and will survive)

Alessandro Schiffer, labourer from Oking
born November 29th 1897,
interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo on February 26th 1944

(He’ll stay in Fossoli, on August 1st 1944 will be transferred to Gries and from there on October 24th will be deported to Auschwitz where he died at an unknown date)

The phonogram #01083 signed by the Commissar Finucci, dated February 15th declared the sending of the deportees to Fossoli, a village near Modena, the following day the above mentioned list of deportees comprised by eighteen women and 18 men.

On February 22nd the train # 8 leaving from Fossoli was composed by 12 freight carriages, carring 650 people including the writer Primo Levi and his friend Doctor Leonardo De Benedetti and 23 of 26 interned at Borgo San Dalmazzo’s detention center.

They arrived at destination three days later, the convoy was bearing the label RSHA and stopped at the town of Auschwitz next to the concourse called “Judenrampe”.

Almost the totality of the transported train convoy #8 where taken by lorry directly to the gas chambers.The other 120 where tattooed with the prisoner ID number and sent to the camp by foot, from that voyage only 24 Italian deportees managed to survive, Primo Levi among them will later write about This experience in the book “If this is a man”.

Five of the 23 Jews arrived from Borgo San Dalmazzo on that train were immediately sent to the gas chambers and the other 18 perished before the liberation.