Residents of an Italian care home singing Bella Ciao on Italy’s 75th anniversary of liberation from fascism.
Celebration of April 25th in a Carpigian retirement home Red heart

Interrompo i miei festeggiamenti casalinghi per condividere con voi la celebrazione del 25 aprile in una casa di riposo carpigiana






ITALIANS SING ‘BELLA CIAO’ TO CELEBRATE LIBERATION DAY


People across Italy celebrated Liberation Day, while still adhering to social distancing measures




Veterans Honor Italy's WWII Uprising From Home


ROME — Veterans of Italy's anti-Fascist World War II resistance have held marches throughout Italy every April 25 since 1945, to honor the uprising that helped end their country's Nazi occupation.

This year’s 75th anniversary was long anticipated among the dwindling band of elderly survivors. But lockdown measures in the coronavirus-afflicted country mean no marches can be held. So the veterans have resorted to the inventiveness they once employed in sabotage missions and guerrilla tactics against the Germans.

At 3 p.m. on Saturday, when the traditional parade would have started in Milan, where Italian Fascist ruler Benito Mussolini’s body was publicly displayed after his execution by resistance fighters, the National Association of Italian Partisans has invited all to sing “Bella Ciao,” the anthem of Italy’s communist resistance, a major component of the liberation efforts.

On the eve of the anniversary, Associated Press photographers portrayed 15 former partisans at their balconies and windows in several Italian cities. Two display their arrays of medals, most drape the tricolored Italian flag around their necks.