page_title: Leone Ginzburg
section_title: Persecution and internal exile
hierarchical_section_title: Leone Ginzburg / Persecution and internal exile
caption_attribution_description: English: Plaque on house in Pizzoli near L'Aquila, Italy, where Leone Ginzburg lived, compelled in an internal exile by the fascism (a punishment known in Italy as confino). The inscription states: «Here dwelt / Leone Ginzburg / who in the thought / in the action of the martyrdom / devoted his belief / in a future / of Liberty and Justice / Odessa, 1909 - Rome 1944». Italiano: Placca commemorativa nella casa di Pizzoli, presso L'Aquila, dove Leone Ginzburg visse al confino. L'iscrizione recita: «Qui dimorò / Leone Ginzburg / che nel pensiero / nella azione del martirio / consacrò la sua fede / per un avvenire / di libertà e giustizia / Odessa, 1909 - Roma 1944». Polski: Tablica pamiątkowa na domu, w którym mieszkał Leone Ginzburg. Pizzoli niedaleko L'Aquila, Włochy.
context_page_description: Leone Ginzburg was an Italian editor, writer, journalist and teacher, as well as an important anti-fascist political activist and a hero of the resistance movement. He was the husband of the renowned author Natalia Ginzburg and the father of the historian Carlo Ginzburg.
context_section_description: Soon after this, he and 14 other young Turinese Jews, including Sion Segre Amar, were arrested for complicity in the so-called "Ponte Tresa Affair" (they were carrying anti-fascist literature over the border from Switzerland), but Ginzburg's sentence was light. He was arrested again in 1935 for his activities as leader (with Carlo Levi) of the Italian branch of Giustizia e Libertà, the Justice and Freedom Party, which Carlo Rosselli had founded in Paris in 1929.
  In 1938 he married Natalia Ginzburg (née Levi). The same year he lost his Italian citizenship when the Fascist regime introduced antisemitic racial laws. In 1940, the Ginzburgs received the fascist punishment known as confino, or internal exile, to a remote, impoverished village, in their case Pizzoli in the Abruzzi, where they stayed from 1940-1943.
  Somehow, Leone was able to continue his work as head of the Einaudi publishing house throughout the period. In 1942, he co-founded the clandestine Partito d'Azione or "Action Party", a party of the democratic resistance. He also edited their newspaper L'Italia Libera.
caption: Plaque on the house where Leone Ginzburg lived in Pizzoli near L'Aquila
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