Gelindo (1901), Antenore (1906), Aldo (1909), Ferdinando (1911), Agostino (1916), Ovidio (1918), Ettore (1921). The Cervi family was a numerous farming family originated from Reggio Emilia. They were poor but they had a strong impulse to improve themselves and also help others. They were antifascist since the beginning of the regime. Aldo was imprisoned at the end of the twenties. With the increasing repression, the Cervi began to involve in sabotage operations against arms manufactures and their home became a place where the opposition against the regiment was organized and where many antifascists were hidden. In November 1943 their home was set on fire and the 7 brothers were captured. They were shoot, their father Alcide was saved.

He was born in Naples in 1920. He was enlisted in police in '39, before a hurt of war, he was moved in barracks of Torre di Pietra, near Rome, in 1942. In that place there was an explosion where there were the SS. It wasn't an attack but an accident, many germans made explode bombs while they were searching in Fiamme Gialle's boxes. The German unit commander gave the responsability to anonimous people and demanded help from police officers, while D'Acquisto had the command. The following morning, Germans captured 22 people and D'Acquisto, they continued to demand the names of the guilties, but D'Acquisto continued to say that it was an accident. The hostages were forced to scave a big cave for their next execution. Then D'Acquisto gave the responsability of accident to himself to save the farmers, and asked their liberation. The 22 prisoners were released when D'Acquisto was executed at 23 years old. It was the 23 of September 1943.

Bologna, as part of a mopping up of various proportions directed against training partisan Red Star. The massacre of Marzabotto is one of the most serious war crimes against the civilian population perpetrated by the German armed forces in Western Europe during the Second World War. In the hamlet of Casaglia Monte Sole, the population shocked took refuge in the church of St. Maria Assunta, praying. Germans came killing with a barrage of machine gun the priest, Father Ubaldo Marchioni, and three older people. Other people, gathered in the cemetery were killed: 195 victims, of 28 different families among them 50 children. It was the beginning of the slaughter. Every town, every hamlet, every cottage was sieved by Nazi soldiers, and nobody was spared. This violence was unusual: at the end of winter was found in the snow beheaded body of the priest Giovanni Fornasini. In marzabotto 800 apartments were destroyed, 15 roads, 7 bridges, 5 schools, 11 cemeteries, 9 churches and 5 speakers. Total victims of Marzabotto, Monzuno and Grizzana were about 800, of which 316 women, 216 were less than 12 years and 5 priest. After the liberation Walter Reder (the Nazi official responsible for this massacre) was captured by the Americans. He was extradited in italy tried by the military court of Bologna in 1951 and sentenced to life in prison. After many years spent in prison of gaeta, through the intercession of the Austrian Government he was transfered to Vienna where he died a few years later.

The Fosse Ardeatine massacre was a mass execution carried out in Rome on 24 March 1944 by Nazi German occupation troops for a partisan attack. This caused the deaths of 33 german soldiers, but immediately after the attack in Via Rasella, the Germans killed 335 italian civilians. For its brutality, the high number of victims and for the tragic circumstances, than took to the fulfilment of this slaughter, it has become symbol of the Nazi reprima during the period of the occupation: ten Italian killed for every German(but Germans mistook the multiplication for excess). The victims were Regina Coeli prisoners and prisoners of detention center and tortures of street Tasso, and 50 were selected by fascist quaestor Caruso. The slaughter was organized by Herbert Kappler (already responsible for the raking of the Rome ghetto in 1943 and responsible for the tortures against the imprisoned partisans in via Tasso) he was SS officer and police german commander in Rome. The bodies of the victims were threw thrown in caves, and were made to burst of the bombs in order to hide the atrocity. In the post-war period, Herbert Kappler was judged guilty and condemned to the life imprisonment By an italian court.he had an incurable tumor,helped by his wife, he escaped from prison and he went in to Germany where he died few years later. Also the first collaborator of Kappler, the ex-capitain of SS Erick Priebke, after a long furtiveness in Argentina, was arrested, extradited to Italy and condemned to the life imprisonment. Albert Kesselring, chief of german troups in Italy, was judged and ondemned to death the 6th may 1946 y an allied court for war crimes and fosse Ardeatine massacre, but the sentence was commutated in life imprisonment. He died in 1960.

Quanto poté durare il tuo martirio
Nelle sinistre Fosse Ardeatine
Per mano del carnefice tedesco
Ubriaco di ferocia e di viltà?
Come il lungo calvario di Gesù
Seviziato deriso e sputacchiato
Nel suo ansante sudor di sangue ed anima
Fosse durato o un’ora o un sol minuto;
fu un tale peso pel tuo cuore umano,
che avrai sofferto, o figlio, e conosciuto
tutto il dolor del mondo in quel minuto