Military Cemetery of Argenta
Military Cemetery of Argenta.Federica Pezzoli, 2015. © MuseoFerrara
The military cemetery of the Battle of Argenta Gap is the only Allied military cemetery in the province of Ferrara. Five young men belonging to the Jewish Brigade are also buried among the soldiers.
The cemetery of Argenta is, together with those of Villanova di Bagnacavallo and that of Piangipane in the province of Ravenna, one of the Allied military cemeteries that testify to the passage of the front in the valleys of Ferrara and Ravenna between March and April 1945.
Among the 625 tombs of the young soldiers killed in the battle of Argenta Gap on 18 April 1945, buried here are also those of five members of the Jewish Brigade, created in September 1944, falling within the Commonwealth forces and destined for the Italian front. Their names are: Aaron Goldberg, David Goldberg, Albert Yudin, Leo Smith, Jacob Levy.
Bibliography
- Luoghi ebraici in Emilia Romagna, Touring Club Italiano, Milano-Bologna 2006
- Moretti, Rino, La battaglia dell’Argenta Gap. Guida storico-turistica, Edisai, Ferrara 2008
- Poggiali, Andrea, I segni della guerra. Lapidi e monumenti, in Provincia di Ferrara, ai caduti italiani nel XX secolo, Claudio Nanni, Ravenna 2011
Sitography
Fototeca
Compiling entity
- Istituto di Storia Contemporanea di Ferrara
Author
- Federica Pezzoli