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May 3, 2018 · Mussolini would ultimately drag the country into the Second World War on the side of Germany’s Adolf Hitler. My father is now 92 and lives an hour north of Milan, and his name is Pino Lella. His last two years as a teenager are inseparable from the war and the fall of Fascism.
One day, while Leyers is away, Pino looks around his apartment for his valise key and is caught by Anna. Pino tells Anna what he is doing, and Anna decides to help him. From this moment forward, Anna and Pino begin falling in love with one another.
The hard fate of Pino Lella, that snatched his then great love Anna Marta from him, moved me deeply while reading. It does so the more when I read here from Michael Lella that Anna was a real person. The many losses he had to experience as a young person during this time are really tragic.
Pino Lella was never at Casa Alpina in Motta, after September 8, 1943. I know it from personal knowledge, because I was there. I already wrote, and Lella has never been able to show a photograph of his stay and of his brother Mimmo in Motta.
Mar 31, 2018 · A spy for the Allies and a participant in the underground railroad that protected Italy’s Jews during World War II, Giuseppe Lella considered himself a coward until an American author persuaded him to share his story with the world.
- Jim Distasio
He’s a normal Italian teenager—obsessed with music, food, and girls—but his days of innocence are numbered. When his family home in Milan is destroyed by Allied bombs, Pino joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, and falls for Anna, a beautiful widow six years his senior.
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Nov 28, 2018 · All the while trying to get a commitment out of Pino’s daughter for me to come and take a portrait of Pino. The family was guarding him not only due to his age but also because of legal concerns since a movie adaptation of Pino’s story was underway.
