Eugenio Curiel
Eugenio Curiel (December 11, 1912, Trieste - February 24, 1945, Milan) was an Italian physicist and a prominent figure of the Italian resistance movement.
He graduates in physics in 1933 at the University of Padua, where he gets in 1934 a position of assistant. In 1935 he joins a small clandestine communist group in the university.
He is banned from teaching in 1938 because of his Jewish origins. He is arrested in Trieste on June 14, 1939 and detained first in Milan and then in the camp of the island of Ventotene, where he meets a number of communist and socialist militants.
After the fall of the fascist regime on August 21, 1943, he leaves the island and joins the armed resistance. He returns to Milan and founds an anti-fascist youth movement, Fronte della gioventù per l'indipendenza nazionale e per la libertà.
On February 24, 1945, he is identified by an informer and immediately killed by a squad of the fascist militia.
He was the cousin of Henri Curiel, a political activist in Egypt and France.
Bibliography
- N. Briamonte, La vita e l'opera di Eugenio Curiel, Milano 1979
- P. de Lazzari, Eugenio Curiel, al confino e nella lotta di liberazione, Milano 1981
- E. Garin, Intellettuali italiani del XX secolo, Roma 1996 ISBN 978-88-359-4151-4