A partisan formation with courage and heroism attacked the Nazi forces, supported by the fascists on November 13-14, 1943. In the battles and roundups that followed, many partisans were tortured and then shot. Eight of these martyrs were found in a mass grave along the Margorabbia on April 4, 1944

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Commemorative plaque in homage to the partisans shot on San Martino and found in a mass grave in Cucco di Brissago

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Eight corpses were found on 4 April 1944 in a mass grave, in the Cucco area, "near the Molino d'Anna electric railway station, under Bosco Valtravaglia", as testified by the then parish priest of Cuveglio Don Mario Bedetti. After an attempt at identification, the bodies were first buried in a mass grave in the Roggiano cemetery and then recomposed on 27 April 1945 in the Mesenzana cemetery. In their memory a shrine was erected next to which a commemorative plaque was placed to remember the tragic event of the battle of San Martino.

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