Local officials said that Milena Burnabo honored one of Italy’s top civilian honors to save three children from Nazis during World War II, died on Sunday at the age of 96.
Burnbo was awarded a gold medal for civil qualification to save his young neighbors during the massacre of St.’na de Stazima in August 1944 in Tuscany, in which 560 people died.
At the age of 16, Bernbo was taken to an outhouse with fellow villagers and targeted by a German machine gun fire.
According to the citation, Bernbo was injured.
But she managed to escape from the building with Mauro and Leena with Mario, five and 10 -year -old children, as it caught fire.
The trio she had left for Bernbo for receiving the Velor Award at a ceremony at the Central City of Lukka in 2005 was present.
The officials of that time welcomed his bravery as an example of several Italian’s “silent resistance” for Nazi occupation during the latter of World War II.
“During her life, she was on the ambassador of peace, which was facing the Nazi-fascist massacre of Santiana Di Stazema,” Stezima’s Mayor, Maurizio Verona told AFP in EI, “she was on the ambassador of peace.
“Milina recalled with the hope that those who were listed would understand that fascism and Nazism were complete evils of the last century and that the institutes and their representatives would work to build the future.”
Two other women of Sant’na were awarded the same honor – Sesira Pardini, who died in 2022, and Jean Biboloti Marsili, who died on the day of genocide.
They were all “heroines”, Mayor Verona told the ANSA news agency, to maintain the memory of Bernbo’s strength and determination, to maintain the memory of what happened.
