Vittoria Nenni

Vittoria Gorizia Daubeuf (née Nenni; 31 October 1915 – 15 or 16 July 1943) was an Italian anti-fascist activist, active in the French Resistance during the Second World War. The daughter of Italian socialist politician Pietro Nenni, Vittoria and her family fled to France in 1928 to escape persecution and violence in Fascist Italy.

Nenni grew up in interwar France and married the publisher Henri Dabeuf in 1937. In 1942, during the Nazi occupation of France, Dabeuf was caught printing French Communist Party leaflets and executed by firing squad. Nenni was also arrested and deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she spent seven months before dying of disease, probably typhoid fever.

Background Vittoria Gorizia Nenni was born in Ancona on 31 October 1915 ' as the third daughter of Pietro Nenni, later a central figure and leader of the Italian Socialist Party, and Carmen Emiliani. She had two elder sisters, Giuliana and Eva, and a younger sister, Luciana.

In 1942, members of the French Communist Party approached Dabeuf about using his publishing company to print leaflets and brochures. Dabeuf spoke to Nenni about the prospect and she encouraged him to go through with it. January 1943, she was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp, Pietro Nenni and Bettino Craxi visited the forest In 1988, the Italian Socialist Party's membership card was dedicated to Nenni and featured a painting of her by Renato Guttuso. Several streets in Italy have been named after Nenni. On 24 January 2020, a stolperstein'' (commemorative brass plate) of Nenni was installed in Ancona near the place of her birth.