- Document ID: 1399822
- Document Collection: „1-1-26-3-Individuelle Unterlagen Maenner Mauthausen“
- Link to Online Archive: https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/de/document/1399822
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different date of birth in his daughter’s report below (10.08.1919)
Mario CORNA, born in Romano di Lombardia (Italy) in 1919.
He returned.
https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/archive/1-1-26-3_01012603-035-030
[quote] " […] On March 11, 1940 he was enlisted in the 54th “Umbria” Infantry Regiment and left for the western Alpine front, […] On January 23, 1941, he left for Albania and, after being repatriated, he left again for the Greek front, in the Thessaly area. On September 8, 1943, he was captured by the Germans. Some planes dropped leaflets on the Italian troops with the news that the war was over. It was then that my father took the train convinced that he could return home. Unfortunately, a bitter fate awaited him: the carriages where the soldiers had packed in were sealed and only reopened in Mauthausen. He experienced the horrors of the concentration camps.[…]"
(translated from Italian, taken from source below)
His detailed story in this article (as told by his daughter)