Resistance

The Museo della Resistenza di Bologna (Bologna Resistance Museum) presents the history of war and resistance in Bologna prior to and during the Second World War. Main exhibits include “Anti-Fascism Before the War,” “Bolognese Participation in the Spanish Civil War,” “City at War,” “Resistance in Bologna,” and “Resistance in Postwar History.”

The Museo della Repubblica di Montefiorino e della Resistenza Italiana (Museum of the Republic of Montefiorino and Italian Resistance) in Montefiorino presents the history of local resistance to German and fascist occupation in 1943-45, with an emphasis on the partisan Republic of Montefiorino which existed in 1944 before being repressed by German forces.

The Fondazione Villa Emma (Villa Emma Foundation) is a cultural centre and historic organization established in Nonantola to commemorate the actions of the town and its residents in housing and sheltering 73 Jewish children and youth between Summer 1942 and Fall 1943. A total of 73 youth between the ages of six and 21 arrived in Nonantola over this period in two large refugee groups: the first from Germany and Austria on July 17, 1942, the second from Bosnia and Croatia on April 10, 1943.

The Museo della Resistenza Piacentina (Piacentina Resistance Musuem) presents the history of Italian resistance to German and Fascist occupation in the Province of Piacentina from 1943-45. Exhibits display period artifacts including weapons and uniforms employed by local partisans.

The museum is administered and operated by local volunteers, who also provide guided hiking tours of former partisan trails. The museum was inaugurated on April 25, 2009.  

The Archivio della Resistenza e della Memoria (Archives of Resistance and Memory) in Barletta is an ongoing archival project, cataloguing and making available to the public wartime records of the city’s experience during the Second World War. Specific areas of publicized documentation include resistance to German and fascist occupation from 1943-45, records of local military and civilian executions and unmarked graves, and testimonies from local witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust.    

The Museo Storico della Liberazione di Roma (Museum of the Liberation of Rome) presents the history of the German invasion and occupation of Rome in September 1943 following the Italian-Allied Armistice, the impacts on the city’s population, subsequent resistance, and the Liberation of Rome in June 1944.