Memorial Plaque for Giuseppe Groppo

Near the Fuscher community office is the Isidor-Griessner Park. On the smaller of the two rocks placed there, one can find in a metal book attached to the rock the names of all the Fuscher mountain victims. Among them is also the name Giuseppe Groppo. Groppo, born on 24.10.1925 in Mason, Italy, was arrested in 1943 after the occupation of northern Italy by the Wehrmacht and was employed as a forced laborer in the construction of the power plant in Kaprun. Between June and July 1944 – marked by forced labor and without suitable clothing – he attempted to flee over the Alps to Italy. However, he did not survive the escape attempt. Giuseppe Groppo died at the age of 19 as a result of the weather conditions and the hardships. At the time of the plaque's creation, there was no reference on the photo indicating that Giuseppe Groppo was a victim of the national socialist regime. However, in October 2014, on the initiative of the historian Dr. Rudolf Leo, there was a memorial ceremony for Groppo, for which family members from Italy who were still alive traveled.