Piero Angela OMRI was an Italian television host, science journalist, writer and pianist. He was born on 22 December 1928 and died on 13 August 2022, aged 93.
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He was born on 22 December 1928 to parents Nella Maglia Luigia and Carlo Angela, an anti-fascist doctor, who was awarded the Medal of the “Righteous among the Nations” on 29 August 2001.
His father, Carlo Angela, an Italian doctor was awarded “Righteous Among the Nations” for his efforts during World War II in saving Jewish lives.
The deeds of Carlo Angela remained unknown for more than 25 years because of his family’s reserve, and were only revealed in 1995, when Anna Segre decided to publish the diary of her father Renzo, written during the time when he had escaped the extermination camps together with his wife Nella in the clinic “Villa Turina Amione.”
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Based on the evidence and the testimonies collected and presented to it, on 29 August 2001 an Israeli committee awarded Professor Angela the Medal as a Righteous among the Nations and inserted his name into the Garden of the Righteous at the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem: the awarding ceremony took place in San Maurizio Canavese on 25 April 2002.
The Adviser of the Israeli Embassy in Rome, Tibor Schlosser, in the name of the world’s Jewish community as a whole, assigned the award to Sandra and Piero, Carlo Angela’s children.
Since 3 June 2000, a street holds the name of Carlo Angela in San Maurizio Canavese and a plaque was put up over entrance of the Town Hall.
Piero’s father Carlo was born on 9 January 1875 and he died on 3 June 1949, aged 74.
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