brates Eugenio Colorni , Ernesto Rossi , Altiero Spinelli and the birth of the European Federalist Movement . The roots of the ideas developed in Ventotene go back over the years and cross Europe . Those names have so far occupied the entire space of public memory ; as part of that European youth , who emancipated themselves between the Spanish war and the Resistance , as well as two women , Ursula Hirschmann and Ada Rossi , whose contribution was recognized was later recognized , and is still less visible in the collective memory . The enormous delay in recognising their role remains to be addressed , as with all women of the European Resistances .
Recent biographies speak of different subjectivity and experiences in the years of formation , of roads that are in fact distant , but with the original character of an extraordinary tenacity , up to the meeting in Ventotene . The irremovable existential and political-cultural refusal of Nazism and Fascism is deep routed ; they arrive to action , as often in the Resistance , aligned to a man , since he has obscured the reasons for the commitment of many other women , relegating him to the confines of the space of “ care ”. In their case , they were significant male figures . It is difficult to escape the fascination of Spinelli ’ s creativity of thought and writing , of the wealth of philosophical contributions by Eugenio Colorni , of Rossi ’ s endless bibliography . In reality , the heroic death of Colorni and the importance of the political role of Rossi and Spinelli remain as symbols .
Ursula is a German jewess who rejected Nazism early and joined together with her brother Otto Albert in left-wing groups , learning about political conspiracy . She chooses exile from Hitler ’ s Germany at a very young age , the beginning of a pilgrimage in Europe - she will define herself as “ senzapatria ” - , a prelude to the cosmopolitan vocation , the essence of her Europeanism . Ursula ’ s figure is political , but has deep cultural roots , “ very intelligent and
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