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Nov 28, 2018 · Pino’s wife Yvonne welcomed me into the home and after she showed me around a little I started taking a few portraits of her. Then Pino came jogging up the narrow alley and I introduced myself. Quickly we started shooting since I was urged to keep it short.
- 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...
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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.
May 3, 2018 · From Left to Right: Pino Lella, Luigi Manzione, Lawrence Reed—northern Italy, April 2018. Pino, who turned 92 in June 2018, is the subject of the terrific bestseller by Mark Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky. His son Michael tells the story here.
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.
Pino Lello concludes Beneath a Scarlet Sky by musing that he’s proud of his wartime activities helping Jews and declaring “we must have faith in God...and in a better tomorrow”. The bestselling novel depicts extraordinary bravery and offers a realistic-seeming account of Italians’ bravery.
Jan 26, 2019 · 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 their hometown of Milan was being bombed. The boys summered at this camp and were close to Father Re who ran it.
