Stefanina Moro
Stefanina Moro (1927 – October 9, 1944) was an Italian partisan during the occupation of her country by the forces of Nazi Germany. Serving as a courier, she was captured by Nazi forces. Tortured by them for information, she died from her injuries. Life Born in Genoa, she lived in the district. During the war of Italian liberation, she served as a staffetta, a courier, responsible for maintaining communications between groups of partisans. In 1944, still a teenager, she was arrested by Nazi forces. She was taken, first to the Casa del Fascio in Cornigliano, and then the in Corso Gastaldi. The latter was a former university building occupied by the Nazis and turned into a prison. There, tortures were conducted under the command of SS officer Friedrich Engel, who would come to be known as the "Executioner of Genoa". Moro was tortured in an attempt to force her to reveal the names of her allies, but these attempts were unsuccessful. Afterwards, she was hospitalized in Asti, where she died on October 9 as a result of her injuries. Legacy Her name was inscribed on a memorial to those from Quezzi who died opposing the Nazi occupation, the dedication of