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1. thericatholic.com › stories › author-saved-fromAuthor saved from despair by Italian who resisted Nazis to ...

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   Sep 27, 2018 · Lella, who was code-named “Observer” in the Italian Resistance, became the personal driver for Adolf Hitler’s left-hand man in Italy and one of the Third Reich’s most powerful commanders.

2. www.bozemandailychronicle.com › news › bozemanBozeman writer captures story of young Italian hero in World ...

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   Apr 20, 2017 · That was the start of a decade-long journey that led Sullivan to meet Pino Lella, to uncover the often forgotten story of World War II in Italy, and to write a novel based on Lella’s life.

3. aish.com › beneath-a-scarlet-sky-italian-heroismBeneath a Scarlet Sky: Italian Heroism in the Holocaust

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   • Gino Bartali: Renowned Athlete and Secret Hero
   • Prof. Giovanni Borromeo: Hiding Hundreds of Jews in Plain Sight
   • Maria Agnese Tribbioli: The Mother Superior Who Saved Jews

   He was Italy’s greatest athlete: a two time winner of the Giro d’Italia, Italy’s greatest cycling race, who’d also won the Tour de France in 1938. Yet when Gino Bartali, an Italian Catholic from the region of Tuscany, returned home from the Tour de France as Italy’s greatest hero, he pointedly refused to dedicate his victory to Italy’s Fascist lead...

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   Distinguished physician and professor, Dr. Giovanni Borromeo was the director of the renowned Fatebenefratelli Hospital in Rome when World War II broke out. He was a devout Catholic and father of young children who’d been a military hero during World War I. Although he had everything to lose by helping Jews, when an employee of the hospital, Dr. Vi...

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   Maria Agnese Tribbioli was the Mother Superior at the Firenze Convent on Ferragli Street in Florence when war broke out. Together with a loose network of other Catholic leaders, especially her friend Cardinal Elia Della Costa, Mother Maria decided to take action when Jews and other Italians began to be deported. She decided to use her convent to sh...

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4. readingsandponderings.com › 2019/01/26 › beneath-aBeneath a Scarlet Sky- A True Story of a Great Italian Guy

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   Jan 26, 2019 · It is based on the true story of a great Italian guy, Pino Lella, who played a part in the Allies’ success in northern Italy. Pino, who is now about 90 years old is an unsung hero of World War 2.

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   May 3, 2018 · The Americans asked my dad to be a guide one last time, leading one final escape from Italy. His mission was to drive an important, high-ranking Nazi from American custody to the Austrian border where he could be safely interrogated for the intelligence he possessed about Hitler’s Reich.

6. jessicasreadingroom.com › a-conversation-with-markA Conversation with Mark Sullivan – Jessica's Reading Room

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   At the age of 17, Giuseppe “Pino” Lella helped Jews escape the Nazis in northern Italy, guiding them from a Catholic boys school north of Lake Como, up and over the Alps, and into neutral Switzerland.

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   Is Lella a true story?

   • Instead, he wrote a fictional book that draws on many of the stories Lella told him. Sullivan has estimated that “90%” of the adventures in his book are true. The fictional Lella in his novel works for the Italian resistance and helps lead dozens of Jews to safety in Switzerland over the Alps.

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   Is Pino Lella a true story?

   • Sullivan's novel follows the real-life story of Pino Lella, an Italian teenager who joined an underground railroad during World War II. He helped Jews escape to freedom as Nazi forces closed in. But Lella's parents were terrified for his safety, and thought he would be kept out of combat if he enlisted as a German soldier.

   Story of teen who saved Jews in WWII comes to Hollywood

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   What did Lella do for a living?

   • He helped Jews escape to freedom as Nazi forces closed in. But Lella's parents were terrified for his safety, and thought he would be kept out of combat if he enlisted as a German soldier. He ended up becoming the personal driver for General Hans Leyers, one of Hitler's top commanders in Italy.

   Story of teen who saved Jews in WWII comes to Hollywood

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   What does Pino Lella want?

   • Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He’s a normal Italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and girls—but his days of innocence are numbered.

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8. www.goodreads.com › questions › 1032396-is-pinoIs Pino Lella still living? What a marvelous book. - Goodreads

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   bringing the story of Pino Lella to life for all of us. What an extraordinary man who did amazing things under extraordinary circumstances. As the quote from Schindler’s list states: “ He who saves one life saves the whole world.” God bless you Pino Lella.