Massimo Adolfo Vitale

MAXIMUM ADOLFO VITALE

A law graduate, Massimo Vitale Adolfo began his military career in arming the cavalry. After obtaining his pilot's license, took part in the war in Libya as a commander of an air squadron. He fought in the First World War in the Third Army and received a silver medal for military valor and a Cross of Merit of war. Between 1919 and 1922 he continued his activities in the Air Force, Eritrea, Somalia and then in Libya. In Libya created the body of meharists of which he was also commander. In 1929 he became the Italian colonial administration official.

He returned to Rome after the liberation of the city until the early '50s Vitale was at the helm of Research Committee Deported Jews (CRDE) . Called by the Commissioner of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities (UCII), Joseph Nathan, Vitale undertook to investigate the fate of Italian Jews deported "to an unknown destination." As president of the CRDE developed contacts and relationships with institutions and public and private, national and international, to search for documentary evidence about the arrests and deportations. dell'UCII In 1947 the president, Raffaele Vitale cantons commissioned to write a story of Jews in Italy between September 1943 and April 1945. The research Vitale about the deportees took so new impetus to the compilation of the list in 1953 Birth and death of victims of deportation from Italy and the Aegean islands. After the creation of the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation CDEC in 1955, Vitale became part of the Council as a representative of the new institute dell'UCII. The CDEC was the direct continuator of the research of Colonel Vitale, resulted in the publication of The Book of Memory. The Jews deported from Italy (1943-1945). Research Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation Liliana Picciotto (I ed. 1991 3rd ed. 2002). Adolfo Massimo Vitale died in April 1968 in Civitavecchia.