Somehow, Leone was able to continue his work as head of the Einaudi publishing house throughout the period. In 1942, he co-founded the clandestine Partito d'Azione or "Action Party", a party of the democratic resistance. He also edited their newspaper L'Italia Libera. Capture and murder In 1943, after the Allied invasion of Sicily and the fall of Mussolini, Leone went to Rome, leaving his family in the Abruzzi. When Nazi Germany invaded in September, Natalia Ginzburg and their three children fled Pizzoli, simply climbing aboard a German truck and telling the driver that they were war refugees who had lost their papers. They met with Leone and went into hiding in the capital. On 20 November 1943, Leone – who now used the false name Leonida Gianturco – was arrested by the Italian police in a clandestine printshop of the newspaper L'Italia Libera. He was taken to the German section of the Regina Coeli prison. They subjected him to severe torture. On 5 February 1944 he died there from the injuries he received; he was 34 years old. Works Scrittori russi (1948) Scritti (1964) References Further reading Natalia Ginzburg, All Our Yesterdays Natalia Ginzburg, The Things We Used To Say Susan Zuccotti, The Italians and the Holocaust: Persecution, Rescue, and Survival, University of Nebraska Press External links Books of the Times; Richard Bernstein, "Telling the Bigger Story With the Small Details", The New York Times, August 4, 1999 1909 births 1944 deaths Odesa Jews People from Kherson Governorate Italian male journalists Italian anti-fascists Members of Giustizia e Libertà Resistance members killed by Nazi Germany Jewish anti-fascists Jewish Italian politicians Jews from the Russian Empire Action Party (Italy) politicians 20th-century Italian politicians People executed by torture Jewish resistance members during the Holocaust Jews executed by Nazi Germany Italian people executed by Nazi Germany Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Italy Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Germany 20th-century Italian journalists Writers from Turin 20th-century Italian Jews 20th-century Italian male writers Jewish Italian writers