Badini Gustavo & Rosanna (Andreon)

Gustavo and Rosanna Badini In 1943, Guiseppe Gesuà sive Salvadori, his wife Regina and their sons, Moisè-Marco and Vittorio, found themselves in the town of San Donà di Piave. They had left Venice and had been wandering from place to place since early in the war. Not long after the Germans occupied Italy, Giuseppe met Count Gustavo Badini, and appealed to him for help. Count Badini was the commander of a resistance cell in the area, and had gained a reputation as someone who endeavored to help people in distress – irrespective of their religious background. The Count invited the Salvadoris to stay in his home in the village of Zenson di Piave, where he lived with his wife Rosanna and their two children, Alvise and Andreina. He housed his guests in the attic, and introduced them to the neighbors as a family displaced from Venice due to the aerial bombardments of that city. Badini also provided them with false documents and ration cards. In late November 1944, Count Badini was arrested and imprisoned in San Donà di Piave; he was executed on December 10, 1944. Following his death, his widow Rosanna continued to care for the Salvadoris until April 1945. On November 2, 2011, Yad Vashem recognized Gustavo and Rosanna Badini as Righteous Among the Nations.