Unpunished crimes: the children killed in Gorla
UNIQUE THOUGHT – SERIES A DEATHS AND SERIES B DEATHS
Reporting of Federici Studies Center
Milano, Gorla and the massacre of the 184 innocent
The sky is damn blue over Milan, the morning of 20 October 1944. So blue that the primary school teacher Francesco Crispi, in the Gorla area, she is worried: «It's too clear, they could bomb. We are forced to go to school, but you who can…», he says, meeting little Graziella Ghisalberti on the bridge of the Martesana canal, 7 years, holding hands with his mother and his little cousin Edoardo di 6. Instead Graziella and Edoardo, with their black aprons, they walk through the door, like every day since they returned from Brianza, where they were displaced for fear of war: "The war is over now anyway", the adults repeated. And instead the war in Milan had to deliver the final blow, the most devastating.
In second class that day they learned capital letters and Graziella had just completed a whole page of D… A gesture that is still old today 77 he often repeats with his finger, tracing many imaginary capital Ds on the table… «At that moment, all 11 e 14 – he says – the small alarm sounded, American planes were arriving, we all had to run down to the shelter under the school".
