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Tina Costa

Tina Costa
Born(1925-11-11)11 November 1925
Gemmano
Died20 March 2019(2019-03-20) (aged 93)
Rome
NationalityItalian
OccupationPartisan

Tina Costa (11 November 1925 – 20 March 2019) was an Italian anti-fascist and syndicalist.

Biography

Born in Gemmano near Rimini in an anti-fascist family,[1] Costa refused to wear the compulsory fascist school uniform.[2][3]

During Second World War

During Second World War, Tina Costa entered the Resistance and joined the Italian Communist Party since Second Italo-Ethiopian War;[1] she performed several jobs as a dispatch rider through the Gothic Line.[4]

She was arrested with her mother and one of her brothers and was imprisoned in Fossoli camp[1] but they all escaped during a bombing that hit their train.[5]

Activism

After the war Costa stayed in the Italian Communist Party till its closure and then joined the Communist Refoundation Party. Costa was an active member of Italian General Confederation of Labour[6] and board member of the National Association of Italian Partisans.[7][8] She took part in rallies for civil and political rights till her death.[9]

Death

Tina Costa died in Rome on 20 March 2019 aged 93.[10][8][11]

References

  1. ^ a b c ""Io, giovane staffetta partigiana". La testimonianza di Tina Costa, scomparsa a 93 anni". 20 March 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Addio alla partigiana Tina Costa, pasionaria della libertà". 20 March 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  3. ^ "Tina Costa si racconta agli studenti: "Io, partigiana e ribelle già a 6 anni"". 1 April 2017. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  4. ^ "Morta a 94 anni la partigiana Tina Costa: "In piazza fino all'ultimo"". 20 March 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  5. ^ "Morta Tina Costa, staffetta partigiana e attivista sui diritti civili". 20 March 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  6. ^ "La "grammatica" partigiana di Tina Costa". 20 March 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  7. ^ "La partigiana riminese Tina Costa a 93 anni al Roma Pride 2018". 8 June 2018. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  8. ^ a b "Morta Tina Costa, la storica partigiana: fu la staffetta della linea gotica per armi e viveri". 20 March 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  9. ^ "Rally against racism and fascism in Rome". 24 February 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  10. ^ "Addio alla pasionaria Tina Costa, partigiana di 93 anni". 20 March 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  11. ^ "Morta Tina Costa, storica partigiana". 20 March 2019. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Costa