Elia Gesess, Sara Gesess, Ada Ancona Gesess — Padova, Italy
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Stolpersteine (Pietre d'inciampo) for the Gesess family at Via Roma 48 in Padova
Waymark Code: WM156YY
Location: Veneto, Italy
Date Posted: 10/28/2021
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QUI ABITAVA
ELIA GESESS
NATO 1898
ARRESTATO 16.12.1943
DEPORTATO
AUSCHWITZ
ASSASSINATO 15.2.1945
DACHAU
QUI ABITAVA
SARA GESESS
NATO 1937
ARRESTATO 16.12.1943
DEPORTATO
AUSCHWITZ
ASSASSINATO 3.8.1944
QUI ABITAVA
ADA ANCONA GESESS
NATO 1896
ARRESTATO 16.12.1943
DEPORTATO
AUSCHWITZ
ASSASSINATO 3.8.1944
Ada Ancona Gesess was born in Trieste on 3 August 1896. She married Elia Gesess (born on 6 October 1898 in Odessa, then Russian Empire), the couple had two daughters, Elisa (born 1922) and Sara Simon (born 1937).
After the armistice of Cassibile and the Nazi takeover of power in Italy, the Jewish family recognised the danger and decided to flee to Switzerland. The older daughter Elisa, meanwhile married to Renato Parenzo, did not go with them because she was pregnant. She hid with her family near Monte Grappa. On 16 December 1943, Elia and Ada Ancona Gesess were stopped and arrested together with their daughter Sara in Tiranom near the Swiss border. All three were first imprisoned in the Sondrio prison, then in the Vo' Vecchio concentration camp of Padua and later in the Risiera di San Sabba, a transit camp in Trieste. They were deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp on 31 July 1944 on transport 33T. During the selection immediately after arrival in Auschwitz on 3 August 1944, the family was separated. Ada Ancona Gesess and her daughter Sara were murdered in a gas chamber on the same day.
Elia Gesess was assigned to forced labour, survived Auschwitz, was transferred to Dachau concentration camp and murdered there by the Nazi regime on 15 February 1945.
The laying of the Stolpersteine at Via Roma 48 took place on 13 January 2015.
source: wikipedia