This exhibition has been co-curated be Giordano Viozzi and Valentina Cicarilli for Associazione La Casa della Memoria di Servigliano, with special thanks to Anne Copley for Monte San Martino Trust.
Monte San Martino Trust:
The Trust was founded in 1989 by J. Keith Killby, a former prisoner of war in Italy, and other ex-PoWs, to acknowledge the courage and sacrifice of the Italian country people who rescued many of the 50,000 Allied servicemen who were on the run from camps after the Armistice in September 1943. They were attempting to rejoin Allied forces.
The founder, J. Keith Killby, was one of approximately 50,000 Allied servicemen who escaped from PoW camps after the Armistice with Italy in September 1943. These men threw themselves on the mercy of thousands of ordinary Italians, mainly country people (contadini), in their attempts to rejoin the Allies and escape recapture by the Germans and Italian Fascists while doing so.
