Lucy Salani

Lucy Salani

Lucy Salani (12 August 1924 – 22 March 2023) was an Italian activist and the only known Italian transgender person to have survived the Nazi concentration camps. Born in Fossano and raised in Bologna, Salani was understood to be a gay man before undergoing gender-affirming surgery later in her life. An anti-fascist, Salani deserted both the fascist Italian and the Nazi German armies during World War II before being caught and deported to Dachau concentration camp in 1944, where she remained until the liberation of the camp by the United States Armed Forces in April 1945. Following her liberation and the end of the war, Salani lived in Rome, Turin and Paris before completing her transition in London. Read more on Wikipedia

Their biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lucy Salani is the 587th most popular social activist (down from 490th in 2019). (down from 3,910th in 2019)