Lidia Beccaria Rolfi

Lidia Beccaria Rolfi (; 8 April 1925 – 17 January 1996) was an Italian elementary teacher, writer, diarist, partisan and Socialist Party politician. A member of the Italian resistance, Beccaria was arrested by the National Republican Guard (GNR) and later deported to Ravensbrück by the Gestapo.

Italian resistance By the time of the Armistice of Cassibile, Beccaria had made contact with the Italian resistance. On 3 December 1943, Beccaria joined the 15th Brigade "Saluzzo" of the 11th Division Garibaldi as a . Prevented from returning to her former school by a superintendent with a fascist sympathies, Beccaria earned a teaching degree from the University of Turin and was later able to return to teaching.

Personal life Upon her return to Italy, Beccaria married Giorgio Rolfi with whom she had one son.

On 17 January 1996, Beccaria died in Mondovì aged 70.

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