The beginning of the tragedy On 19 October 1943, the war arrived in Atina in all its cruel concreteness. Until that day, the roar of the cannons and the distant flashes were only echoes from the Cassino front, but that night the roar of a plane ripped through the silence of the Comino Valley. Antonio Nardone, [...]
Italy in disarray and the turning point of 8 September The summer of 1943 marked a decisive turning point in the history of Italy and daily life in Atina. After the Allied conquest of Pantelleria and Lampedusa in June, Anglo-American troops landed in Sicily on 10 July, forcing the Axis forces to retreat. A few days later, the [...]
The tragedy, destruction and rebirth of a town in the Comino Valley Amidst the hills of the Comino Valley, the deep and painful memory of the events that marked the town during the Second World War still lives on in Atina. From 9 September 1943 to 28 May 1944 - the day on which the [...]
A forgotten story from the Second World War: the Atinati rescued in Assisi Today we take advantage of this date, 10 June (in 1940 Italy entered the war), to tell you a story (as far as we know, very few people know it) of a group of people from Atina rescued at the end of the Second World War in Assisi. The [...]
ON THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION FOR A DISTINCT OF HONOUR TO THE MUNICIPALITY OF ATINA In many citizens the memory of the tragic events of the war that stopped in Atina from September 1943 to 27 May 1944, the day on which the first New Zealand troops liberated it from the Germans who had been hiding here and were hiding in the basements of the town buildings, is still alive. [...]
