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Apr 20, 2017 · Bozeman writer captures story of young Italian hero in World War II. Pino Lella at age 17. Bozeman best-selling author Mark Sullivan has pledged $15,000 toward a charity that plans to mail free...
Jun 13, 2018 · This gripping tale is based on the true story of young Lella, who at the age of 17 was recruited by Father Re, a family friend, to guide Jewish refugees over the Alps to Switzerland. Pino and...
- A Young Man from Milan
- Smuggling Refugees Through The Alps
- “The Observer”
- From Observation to Action
If you had to pick a time to be a teenager in Milan, 1943 would have been the worst of choices. In June, as my dad was nearing his 17thbirthday, the British began an intensive six-month bombing campaign. It left a third of the city’s population homeless (about 400,000). My father and his younger brother (my Uncle Mimmo) narrowly escaped death one n...
It was then that many Italians rebelled and began hiding and protecting their Jewish-Italian friends. They formed an “Underground Railroad,” a network of escape routes similar to the one that was developed to save American slaves before and during America’s Civil War. One of the network’s routes went through Casa Alpina, where the Lella brothers we...
Through a series of extraordinary circumstances, including his wounding during an Allied bombing raid, my father was ordered back to Milan to convalesce for two weeks. Then, with a little help from family and the abilities to speak French and drive a car, he landed a position as the personal driver and confidant for one of Hitler’s most mysterious ...
At midnight on April 24th, 1945, upon orders from the Resistance, my father single-handedly arrested General Hans Leyers and delivered him to the American Command, led by 5th U.S. Army Major Frank Knebel. For the next five days, he became Major Knebel’s personal guide and translator, at last discarding his uniform and the Nazi swastika. My father w...
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.
May 9, 2017 · Based on the true story of the unlikeliest of heroes, BENEATH A SCARLET SKY follows 17-year-old Pino Lella as he helps lead Jews out of Italy along an underground railroad through the Alps and, later, when he is recruited to become a spy for the Italian Resistance.
Nov 30, 2017 · But after Pino is injured, he is recruited at the tender age of eighteen to become the personal driver for Adolf Hitler’s left hand in Italy, General Hans Leyers, one of the Third Reich’s most mysterious and powerful commanders.
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Sep 27, 2018 · It was there that he overheard a stranger talking about the story of Pino Lella. “Hearing it changed my life. It completely changed my life,” said Sullivan, a Montana resident who traveled to Italy and spent six weeks with Lella, who was then 78 years old and still mentally sharp.
