Italian partisans tried to flee to Switzerland in October 1944. However, two died and a third was injured in a hail of bullets between their fascist pursuers and Swiss border guards in Ticino. They are now commemorated by so-called 'stumble stones'. The ceremony was held on Tuesday morning in the Italian border region of the Onsernone Valley in Ticino and was attended by the mayor of Onsernone and family members of the Italian victims of that time, according to a press release from the Stolpersteine Schweiz association. This is the second time that so-called brass paving stones known as stumble stones (Stolpersteine in German) have been laid in Italian-speaking Swiss canton of Ticino. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Domodossola and the surrounding Italian region were a zone liberated from Nazi-fascist rule for 40 days in autumn 1944. On October 10, however, Italian fascists, supported by German units, launched a major offensive to recapture the area. The ...
