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May 3, 2018 · (Editor’s Note: The picture at the top of this article, of Pino Lella and his son Michael, includes a Spiderman mask next to copies of Beneath a Scarlet Sky. Just one week before my April 12, 2018, visit with Pino on Lake Maggiore (pictured below), British actor Tom Holland, the most recent Spiderman in two major motion pictures, visited with ...
Mimo Lella. Anna Marta is the love of Pino Lella ’s life. Pino first meets Anna by happenstance while roaming the streets of Milan. Pino asks Anna out on a date, and she accepts but fails to show up.
Lella, born in 1926, turning 18 on June 1, 1944, had no military obligation, in fact the notorious Edict Graziani of November 9, 1943, which established the death penalty for those who had not joined the ranks of the new RSI army, in addition to reprisals against families, it concerned only men born in 1923, 1924 and 1925.
Pino Lella. Giuseppe „Pino“ Lella (* June 1 1926 in Milano) is an Italian motorist and contemporary witness of the final phase of World War II. He was the driver of General Hans Leyers and at the same time spy for the Alliance. In April 1945, he delivered Leyers to the Fifth United States Army and then became the driver of Major Frank ...
Pino is shocked to see Anna when he goes to pick up Leyers the following morning. She was the young woman who stood him up the first night Milan was bombed. She works as a maid for Leyers’ mistress, Dolly.
Pino Lella’s life and bravery is beyond heroism. The tale is wonderfully told by Mr Sullivan. Iv just completed listening to the audio version with my 87 year old mother who was a Jewish war survivor in Poland from the invasion in 1939 until she graduated medical school with my father and came to New York in 1959.
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Sep 20, 2018 · “Anna Marta took a bullet to her heart…crumpled back against the wall and died in the dust,” as Pino watched helplessly when a partisan firing squad executed her for the “crime” of being Leyers’ maid. The Allies found Leyers more useful alive than dead.
