Due to the complexity of the wartime events, every city or town remembers its own liberation date. At the end of the war, it was decided to combine those different dates into one single date, to be commemorated annually as national holiday on April 25.
The Italian Partisans National Association (A.N.P.I.), formed in Rome in 1944, gathered ex-partisans, patriots, collaborators, and relatives of the fallen. Recognized as moral body (1945), it has also charitable purposes.
Quadrennial National Congresses take place where the ideal values of the Resistance are discussed and confirmed from a point of view of reality and progress.
To complete this topic I believe it's fitting to report the part of the "Speech on the Constitution" that Pietro Calamandrei delivered in January, 1955, at Milan.
Addressing the students:
".... If you wish to go on a pilgrimage in the place where our Constitution was born, go to the mountains where the partisans fell, to the jails where they were imprisoned, to the camps where they were hanged.
"Wherever an Italian man is dead with the aim to redeem freedom and dignity, go there young men, with this thought, that our Constitution was born there."
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