Ferdinando Valletti was born in Verona on 5 th April 1921 and he died on 23 rd July 2007 in Milan .

He spends the childhood and the adolescence in a college and he got a diploma at the Industrial Institute in Verona .

In 1938 he is engaged at Alfa Romeo in Milan as “Master of Art.”

In 1941 he is in the military service.

In 1942-1943 he plays in the A.C. Milan in the role of halfback next to Meazza.

In March 1944 he is arrested by the men of the Muti for the strike at Alfa Romeo, he was sent to St. Vittore prison and deported to Mauthausen first and subsequently to Gusen where he knows and helps the professor Aldo Carpi that mentions him in his book “Diario di Gusen”.

On 5 th May 1945 he was freed by the Americans.

In August 1945 he is repatriated in precarious conditions of health and took in the nursing home, subsequently the State recognizes him an indemnity as “Disabled Ex-Serviceman”.

In 1946 he started working at Alfa Romeo again and his professional ascent starts.

In 1947 he is honoured by the Garibaldian Medal to the military valour and they recognized him the “Commission as Fighting Partisan.”

In 1950 he comes back to Mathausen and Gusen in official visit with a delegation of the Alfa Romeo: Ferrazza, Crippa, Romanoni, Nespoli, Vignolle, displaced persons and survivors like him.

From 1961 he becomes executive of the Alfa Romeo logistics area.

From 1970 he becomes a teacher in the sector of the Business Logistics of the Mechanical Association and the I.S.E.O. and he took part as speaker in the “TRAMAG” the international showroom of the handling and the logistics in Padua .

In 1970 he is named President of the Senior Group of Alfa Romeo and he carries out a program of charitable, cultural and recreational activities that sets the Senior Group of Alfa Romeo in the forefront among the Company Group of the A.N.L.A.

In 1975 he is named “Master of Work” by the President of the Republic.

In February 1976 he gets the Ambrogino from the Mayor of Milan Aldo Aniasi.

In 1978, after 40 years of service, he resigns from Alfa Romeo.

In 1980 he starts his testimony in the secondary and high schools in Milan through the ANED and the ANPI; the purpose that he proposed is to make people understand how much important is to know not to forget and to undertake ourselves so that the horrors suffered by many innocent people don't happen again.

In 1988 he is mentioned by Duccio Bigatti in his book “The Hatch. Workers, technicians, entrepreneurs at Alfa Romeo”, an essay of history on the Italian industry.

In 1994 he introduces at the Academy of Brera with Pinin Carpi (the known painter Aldo Carpi's son) and other personalities, the second edition of the “Diario di Gusen”.

From 1994 his health is sapped by serious pathologies, last of which the disease of Alzheimer, that forces him to give up his didactic activity in 2000.