Ada Buffulini

Ada Buffulini (28 September 1912 – 3 July 1991)[1] was an Italian medical doctor and anti-Fascist campaigner, who led the resistance movement at Bolzano Transit Camp during the Second World War.

Ada Buffulini
Italian anti-fascist Ada Buffulini
Born(1912-09-28)28 September 1912
Trieste, Italy
Died3 July 1991(1991-07-03) (aged 78)
NationalityItalian
OccupationDoctor
Known forAnti-Fascist campaigner

Personal life

Buffulini was born in 1912 in Trieste, Italy.[2] Aged 18, she moved to Milan to study medicine.[3] She graduated in 1936.[3] She met her husband Carlo Pierino at Bolzano Transit Camp, as they had both been deported there.[4]

Campaigning

Buffulini joined the Italian Socialist Party after the September 1943 Air raid on Frascati.[3] She moved underground in Milan in November.[3]

On 4 July 1944, Buffulini was arrested in Milan.[2] She was at the house of Maria Arata, attending an Italian Socialist Party meeting.[5] The whole group were taken to San Vittore Prison,[5] where Buffulini was held for two months.[1][3] She was then deported to Bolzano Transit Camp,[1][2][3] where she worked as a doctor in the Lager infirmary.[6] Buffulini led the resistance movement at Bolzano,[3] and kept in communication with Lelio Basso.[3] At Bolzano, she also met Communist leader Carlo Venegoni.[1] In February 1945, the SS locked Buffulini up in the cells.[1]

In 2008, a road in Bolzano was dedicated to Buffulini on the 63rd anniversary of the liberation of the Bolzano camp.[1][2]

Publications
  • Buffulini, Ada, The Bolzano Lager (1976)[7]

References
  1. "Ada Buffulini" (in Italian). ANPI. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  2. "Bolzano dedica una via ad Ada Buffulini, ex deportata in via Resia". deportati.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 9 April 2008. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  3. Luzzatto, Sergio (24 April 2015). "Compagna Ada, una vita avanti". Il Sole 24 Ore (in Italian). Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  4. "Don Mauro Bonzi e i deportati di Legnano nei lager nazisti". Legano News (in Italian). 15 March 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  5. "Il giorno dell'arresto di Ada" (in Italian). venegoni.it. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  6. "L'attività di Ada Buffulini a Bolzano" (in Italian). venegoni.it. Archived from the original on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 23 December 2018.
  7. "The Bolzano Lager, by Ada Buffulini (1976)". deportati.it. 1976. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
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