Anna Bravo was associate professor of Social History at the University of Turin. She has written extensively on the history of women, memory, the history of deportation, genocide, armed and civil resistance. She only started to write about the 60s and 70s in Italy after controversies raised by an article she published on violence and abortion in the seventies. But like many others who lived through those times, she had long reflected on their significance. Her most recent published works include: The Photo story (Bologna 2003); ‘The Righteous’ in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (Italian version edited by Alberto Cavaglion, Turin 2003); the essay Us and Violence. Thirty Years to Think About Us, published in the first edition of “Genesis” (2005).

Anna Maria Bruzzone teaches literature subjects in secondary schools, she has published: La Resistenza taciuta (con R. Farina, 1976), Le donne di Ravensbrück (con L. Rolfi, 1978), Ci chiamavano matti. Voci da un ospedale psichiatrico (1979) (1979) as well as school textbooks.