Giovannina The Martyrdom of the Innocents, and Assunta Pierina Ivaldi Assassinate Pian Castagna, Ponzone Ponzone Ponson in Piemontese dialect, is a tiny town on the border between the province Savona and Alessandria, has about a thousand souls, and 'consists of several villages located along the provincial Pianlago, Caldas, Chiappino, Cimaferle, Tolet, Abasse, Piancastagna and Moretti Ponzone.
The area is hilly, with beautiful scenery. The population had always been the distinctive culture of these places, hunting, chestnuts and mushrooms and nothing else. During the resistance, the area became a strategic point for the Communist partisans, who carried out attacks on troops of the Italian Social Republic headquartered in Sassellese and then fold in the hills around Ponzone.
After April 25 in these places were consumed for the atrocities, with the usual justification. The partisan brigade that operated in the area, belonged to the formations Garibaldi, and was the Brigade Emilio old, previously named "Christopher Astengo," the chief was the Vanni Giovanni Battista Cavallero was the political commissar and Augustus. The local farmers, especially those who inhabited the most isolated country houses, resented the presence and movements of the partisan bands, as often happened, from these, requisition of farm animals or food, these foods were important for the families of farmers, often consisting of two adults and teenagers, whose survival was linked, especially in winter, farmyard animals, chickens and sheep and a few plants that could grow: a kilo of potatoes was a little wealth. 
On the other hand those in rural areas, the Communist partisans imposed their will by force of arms, oppose the requisition of food, it would be very dangerous. In this context, two young women, Innocenti Giovannina of 31 years, married and mother of three children, and Pierina Ivaldi taken 29 years, unmarried professional dressmaker, living with their families in Pian Castagna, Viazzi homes are targeted red by the partisans in the afternoon of April 6, 1945, travel to and from their homes under threat of arms, cut their hair, as old and tested affront to a woman accused of being a spy in the service of the fascists, it was of course the usual abused and falsely accused. 
This, unfortunately, does not end there, in fact the same evening of 6 April 1945, at 21, returning to the partisans, broke down the door of the poor country houses and "levying" the two young women, without their relatives can resist, in the civil war in Spain this type of sampling was known as "Sacasa" The relatives of two women will for the last time in life and Giovanna Assumption. Women are dragged for several kilometers in the direction of the Charter village of Palo, in a camp of the Partisan Brigade, located in a old abandoned house in the area labeled 'Cravin', in a valley called Valle Cd. In this site, away from roads used by farmers, were performed summary executions, dozens every week. The farmers of Ponzone and villages, at dusk could hear the blasts of machine-gun partisans break the silence of the night: each burst was a dead man who was going to add others. The two girls will be killed as those who preceded them, will suffer more sexual abuse by twenty-seven criminals will change their wicked action, until the next day. Hence their poor bodies are buried under a thin layer of soil in the forest in separate places. Joan's husband and the father of the Assumption Pierina, you are helping other friends and relatives unable to find the bodies and give them Christian burial at the Cemetery of Ponzone. Now the two poor girls are ossuary of the cemetery.
The Police Station Ponzone after some time, move and investigated for premeditated murder, on two characters: Giovanni Battista Vanni Cavallero and Augustus, who heads the local partisan detachment. These state investigators in 1949 that it had executed the two poor women, as they say, they were fascist spies, and say they are ready to provide proof of this claim, often forgetting that the families of two women hid in the house escaped the roundups fascist partisans. Obviously in this case comes with timing, the official communication of the brigade headquarters and CNL, even of a process "celebrated" by a partisan court the two women, it produces a short report that shows the practice, there are the names components, all red partisans, the court of "justice" partisan who would judge the two poor women and that he issued the "verdict" of death by firing squad in the back. To better reductions of responsibility for having killed the two women also say that to kill the partisans were of Russian nationality. For
record, the President of the "High Court of Justice" is the same Vanni and the Vice President is Cavallero, judges and Executioner at the same time in squaring the vicious circle. None of them will serve one day in prison. I met relatives of two women and they have not forgotten what 'happened to Joan and Assunta Pierina, in particular, the brother of the Assumption Pierina, at the time he was 16, now has about eighty, and recalls with precision the hatred and the folly of those partisans who rose to chief judges of life and death. A framed photo and 'hanging on the wall, it is seen Pierina Assunta, a beautiful face of a woman who has suffered an unspeakable agony as though her friend, Joan, innocent of all guilt. In the square of the City of Ponzone, a small obelisk bears the names of those killed in various conflicts in the bottom line under the title "civilian casualties" they read the names of two poor girls just more hypocrisy.
Roberto Nicolick
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