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

Vinicio Lorenzini

Photographed by Sean P. Flynn, July 29, 2025

1. Vinicio Lorenzini Marker

Inscription. Click to hear the inscription.

A Vinci viveva
Vinicio Lorenzini
Nato 1921
Arrestato 8.3.1944
Deportato
Mauthausen
Assassinato 23.5.1944
Ebensee

[English translation:]
In Vinci lived
Vinicio Lorenzini
Born 1921
Arrested March 3, 1944
Deported to Mauthausen
Murdered May 23, 1944
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° 47.21′ N, 10° 55.586′ 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: Renzo Gemignani (here, next to this marker); Gino Giacomelli (here, next to this marker); Spartaco Fedi (here, next to this marker);

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Bruno Domenichini (here, next to this marker); Francesco Domenichini (here, next to this marker); Angiolo Masi (here, next to this marker); Piero Bastiani (here, next to this marker); The Liberation of Vinci, Italy (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 Vinicio Lorenzini. Information about neither Lorenzini's life nor his death at a Nazi concentration camp could be found, but details about Mauthausen concentration camp and its Ebensee sub-camp offer a little bit of insight. Mauthausen was open from 1938 until 1945 and is considered one of the most brutal of Germany's camps, home to a quarry that required the back-breaking work

Photographed by Sean P. Flynn, July 29, 2025

2. Vinicio Lorenzini Marker

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. Lorenzini was killed in May 1944 at Ebensee, a sub-camp of Mauthausen where slave laborers engaged in deadly work digging tunnels for armaments storage.

Also see . . .
1. Stolpersteine official site. (Submitted on August 31, 2025, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.)
2. Ebensee concentration camp.

Excerpt: "The Ebensee concentration camp was erected as a labour camp subordinate to the Mauthausen concentration camp. The first inmates arrived in Ebensee on 18 November 1943. Until the time when the construction of the first barracks was finished, the prisoners had to stay in a storehouse of the weaving mill. To cover up the existence of the camp, SS officers used the code names Kalk (limestone), Kalksteinbergwerk (limestone mine), Solvay and Zement (cement). The main purpose of Ebensee was to provide slave labour for the construction of the enormous underground tunnels which were to be used for research purposes and the development of the A9/A10 Interkontinentalrakete (intercontinental rocket)."

(Submitted on August 31, 2025, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.)

8 Stolpersteine in Vinci image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Sean P. Flynn, July 29, 2025

3. 8 Stolpersteine in Vinci

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 September 22, 2025. It was originally submitted on August 29, 2025, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois. This page has been viewed 67 times since then and 14 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.