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Nov 28, 2018 · Pino Lella is one of those people with an aura that ends up influencing their life. I felt it when I met him. It becomes clear when you learn about his life. I didn’t know anything about Pino until I read the novel based on his life. I read it fast, it consumed me. When I finished the last page I was sitting at the Denver airport weeping.
Aug 16, 2017 · 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 ...
Pino Lella Lella claimed to have led Jews fleeing Italy through the Alps into Switzerland to freedom and later, as a Nazi, to have passed information to the Italian resistance.
Aug 15, 2017 · Pino Lella is a normal Italian teenager living an idyllic life in Italy, until bombs begin falling on Milan and word of Nazi atrocities begin to circulate. Lello joins an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps, guiding hundreds of Jews to safety in a year. On his 18th birthday, Lella is forced to enlist with the German Army, and ...
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. At seventeen years old, Pino and his little brother are sent to a Catholic boys camp in the Alps on the border between Italy and Switzerland because ...
Aug 16, 2017 · The story itself was the product of investigative journalism from Sullivan – a former Peace Corps volunteer in Africa – that dramatizes the personal account of the real-life Pino Lella, who ...
Mar 31, 2018 · The war came to Giuseppe “Pino” Lella right as he watched Fred Astaire dance with Rita Hayworth. It was the summer of 1943 and Lella, then 17 years old, was sitting next his brother, Mimmo, at a movie theater in his native Milan watching the cinematic duo twirl across the screen. For a brief moment, the war that had engulfed Europe …
