June 2, 2013 - Medal of Honor to Italian citizens who were deported and interned in Nazi concentration camps from 1943 to 1945

Yesterday in the festivities for June 2 (REPUBLIC DAY) I had the pleasure to withdraw the medal of honor to the Italian citizens who were deported and interned in Nazi concentration camps from 1943 to 1945 given to my grandfather, unfortunately missed in 1983.
The medal was established by Article 1 of Law No 1271-1276 paragraphs. 296 of 2006.
My grandfather, Giorgio Galliano, was captured in a raid German together with seven other guys (Giovanni Galliano, Promis Pietro, Oreste Galliano, Galliano Venanzio, Epifanio Galliano, Galliano Giuseppe, Ferrua Dario) in Roburent March 21, 1944, was probably mistaken for a partisan and then transferred to a labor camp in Germany. Unfortunately he always spoke very little of these periods of his life and missed too early to be able to tell how things went specifically. The only things certain these are also listed in the diary of Don Emidio Ferraris pastor of Serra Pamparato time. Thanks to the municipality of Pamparato the diary is also available on the Internet at this address.

http://www.comune.pamparato.cn.it/home/?id_pg=119&id_spg=124

The memories of my father are very vague we only know that my grandfather worked in a factory and many times suffered hunger their only wealth was to eat the potato skins on a bin that also served as a heater in the cabin. When he managed to return to Italy it is said that they stopped in the village tavern near Cuneo, the owner, made ​​by compassion, he gave them to eat a boiled chicken which did not leave even the bones.
Today, after 69 years in Cuneo, this medal was handed to 10 people, 9 to memory 1 to a veteran still alive born in 1922.