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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...
Tuesday August 29 2017, 12.01am, The Times. Hitler Youth recruits in Rome. The life of Pino Lella, who smuggled Jews out of Italy after joining the underground aged 17, is to be made into a...
Oct 14, 2021 · World War II resistance fighter Giuseppe Lella. A spy for the Allies and a participant in the underground railroad that protected Italy’s Jews during World War II, Giuseppe “Pino” Lella considered himself a coward until an American author persuaded him to share his story with the world.
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The fictional Lella in his novel works for the Italian resistance and helps lead dozens of Jews to safety in Switzerland over the Alps. The fictional Lella joins the German army and becomes driver to a high-ranking Nazi official – all the while acting as a spy for the partisans.
WW II freedom fighter Pino Lella. Share. Apr 02, 2018 15855. BY: Jim DiStasio. The war came to Giuseppe “Pino” Lella right as he watched Fred Astaire dance with Ginger Rogers. 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 ...
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...
Oct 16, 2017 · About the Book: Beneath a Scarlet Sky shares the story of a teenage spy, Pino Lella. After bombs destroy his family home in Milan, 17-year old Pino Lella joined an underground railroad helping Jews escape over the Alps. In an unlikely twist, Pino becomes the personal driver of German General Hans Leyers, who oversaw labor and death camps.
