1. Lidia Menapace was an Italian Resistance fighter and politician who served as provincial minister of South Tyrol for Christian Democracy from 1964 to 1968, and then as senator from 2006 to 2008, representing the Communist Refoundation Party.
11 Facts About Lidia Menapace
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Lidia Menapace was born in the northern Italian city of Novara.
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Lidia Menapace's father was a surveyor named Giacomo Brisca and espoused anti-fascist, republican, and Mazzinian politics.
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Lidia Menapace's mother was Italia Vercesi, a homemaker whose family tended towards anarchism.
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Lidia Menapace's mother told her to destroy school reports in which she was classified as belonging to the "Aryan race" because "[w]e are not animals".
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Lidia Menapace helped Jewish men to escape Italy by bringing them to the Swiss border, and she helped organize escapes from prison.
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Lidia Menapace hid bombs and copies of a Resistance newspaper in the basement of her family's home.
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Lidia Menapace passed secret messages to political prisoners in jail.
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Lidia Menapace was a member of the collective that founded il manifesto, a left-wing newspaper.
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Lidia Menapace was the first woman elected to a legislature position in Bolzano.
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Lidia Menapace died from COVID-19 on 7 December 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.