Vinci in Città Metropolitana di Firenze, Tuscany, Italy — Southern and Western Europe (Mediterranean)

Francesco Domenichini

Photographed by Sean P. Flynn, July 29, 2025

1. Francesco Domenichini Marker

Inscription. A Vinci viveva
Francesco Domenichini
Nato 1900
Arrestato 8.3.1944
Deportato
Mathausen
Assassinato 21.3.1945
Ebensee

[English translation:]
In Vinci lived
Francesco Domenichini
Born in 1900
Arrested March 8, 1944
Deported to Mathausen
Murdered March 21, 1945
Ebensee

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Disasters • War, World II. In addition, it is included in the Stolpersteine series list. A significant historical date for this entry is March 8, 1944.

Location. 43° 47.214′ N, 10° 55.587′ E. Marker is in Vinci, Toscana (Tuscany), in Città Metropolitana di Firenze. It is on Piazza Leonardo da Vinci near Via Montalbano, on the right when traveling south. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 1, Vinci, Toscana 50059, Italy. Touch for directions.

Regionally, it is in Europe,

the European Union,

the Schengen Area,

a coastal Mediterranean country,

and the Western World.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Byzantine Empire,

the Roman Empire,

and specifically the Holy Roman Empire.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Bruno Domenichini (here, next to this marker); Spartaco Fedi (here, next to this marker); Gino Giacomelli

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(here, next to this marker); Vittorio Emanuele II / Victor Emmanuel II (here, next to this marker); Renzo Gemignani (here, next to this marker); Vinicio Lorenzini (here, next to this marker); Angiolo Masi (a few steps from this marker); Piero Bastiani (a few steps from this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Vinci.

More about this marker. The marker is one of eight "Stumbling Stones" (German: Stolpersteine) that are embedded into the sidewalk across the street from Vinci's municipal building. The Stolpersteine are a multi-city project in Europe to remember local Holocaust victims. The eight men honored here were arrested together on March 8, 1944.

About 7,500 Italian Jews are believed to have died during the Holocaust.

Regarding Francesco Domenichini. Little additional information about Francesco Domenichini's life and death could be

Two "Stumbling Stones" in Vinci image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Sean P. Flynn, July 29, 2025

2. Two "Stumbling Stones" in Vinci

found, including his relation to Bruno Domenichini. Domenichini was one of eight men arrested in Vinci on March 8, 1944, and sent to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. A 2025 article about a commemoration of their arrest said the Domenichinis were from Livorno, a coastal city about 65 kilometers west of Vinci, but that could not be further verified.

Mauthausen was open from 1938 until 1945 and is considered one of the most brutal of Germany's concentration camps, home to a quarry that required the back-breaking work of slave labor. Originally a camp for political prisoners, it also held Jews and POWs, and in its later years had a gas chamber for murdering inmates. About 190,000 prisoners were held at Mauthausen, of which about 90,000 are believed to have died. Francesco Domenichini was killed in March 1945 at Ebensee, a sub-camp of Mauthausen where slave laborers engaged in deadly work digging tunnels for armaments storage. Mauthausen was the last German concentration camp to be liberated, freed by U.S. troops on May 5, 1945; the Ebensee sub-camp was liberated the next day.

Eight Stolpersteine in Vinci image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Sean P. Flynn, July 29, 2025

3. Eight Stolpersteine in Vinci

The Francesco Domenichini "stumbling stone" is one of the two in the foreground of this photo.

View of the crematorium at Ebensee image. Click for full size.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Lillian Pressman, May 1945

4. View of the crematorium at Ebensee

The photo was taken soon after Ebensee was liberated on May 6, 1945.

Credits. This page was last revised on August 29, 2025. It was originally submitted on August 29, 2025, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois. This page has been viewed 75 times since then and 10 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on August 29, 2025, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois. 3. submitted on August 28, 2025, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois. 4. submitted on August 29, 2025, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.