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“Dad died in Germany”.
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Two kids. Then they became men. A life with these words that in times of war as in times of peace accompany thoughts and existence.
So that intertwining that resembles the cathedral of chance that cannot be built because it has to come out only with the ingredients of luck, but in this case also of technology, of something that at the time of the Hamburg bombings, it could only be imagined in science fiction books: the great network that connects everyone.
These are the ingredients of the incredible story you saw Sunday, October 25, return to Italy of a man who died in Germany in 1944 of which there was no more news.
This is Lorenzo Moia, born in Orino in 1902 and who worked in Vizzola Ticino probably in Caproni. During the Second World War he had been deported to Germany, like many others, to work: free work for the Reich.
On March 23, 1944 he died in an Allied bombardment in the German city of Salzgitter., in Lower Saxony and was later interred at the Italian Military Honor Cemetery in Hamburg along with 5,839 other Italians, prisoners of war, inmates and civilian workers.
There is not much information about Mr. Lorenzo since the two sons Giancarlo and Enestino (who died in the meantime) were young when he was forced by events to leave his family.
And here another Moia comes into play, the mayor of Orino, Cesare, who some time ago was contacted on Facebook by a lady from Brinzio with a passion for local history who confided to her that she had noticed the name followed by that surname so widespread in this part of Valcuvia on a grave in Hamburg.
The mayor does not know the man, but talks about him in a moment of coexistence which has long distinguished the cultural life of the country: it is the “dialect Wednesday” where a large group of residents and does not gather in the cultural center of the country to speak in the local language.
Among them also Giancarlo Moia, son of Lorenzo fell in Germany: “Yes, I know that my father died in Germany, but we have not heard anything else”.
The mayor consults the municipal records and discovers the truth.
«Through the website of the Ministry of Defense, General Commissioner of Honors of the Fallen (Onorcaduti) in July 2019, the City Council together with the relatives requested a concession and consequent transfer of the mortal remains of the fallen Moia Lorenzo, ”explains the mayor.
«Giancarlo’s excitement at being able to bring his dad home in Orino was great. After the first period of coronavirus, the affirmative responses arrived and after the completion of some bureaucratic procedures, we were notified of the exhumation date, September 29, 2020. After the second coronavirus emergency, the remains of our compatriot were handed over to relatives. only on Sunday, in Milan, after a brief but significant ceremony in which I participated as mayor of Orino ».
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