| Ada Buffulini | |
| Birth Date: | 28 September 1912 |
| Birth Place: | Trieste, Italy |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Occupation: | Doctor |
| Known For: | Anti-Fascist campaigner |
Ada Buffulini (28 September 1912 – 3 July 1991) was an Italian medical doctor and anti-Fascist campaigner, who led the resistance movement at Bolzano Transit Camp during the Second World War.
Buffulini was born in 1912 in Trieste, Italy.[1] Aged 18, she moved to Milan to study medicine.[2] She graduated in 1936.[2] She met her husband Carlo Pierino at Bolzano Transit Camp, as they had both been deported there.[3]
Buffulini joined the Italian Socialist Party after the September 1943 Air raid on Frascati.[2] She moved underground in Milan in November.[2]
On 4 July 1944, Buffulini was arrested in Milan.[1] She was at the house of Maria Arata, attending an Italian Socialist Party meeting.[4] The whole group were taken to San Vittore Prison,[4] where Buffulini was held for two months.[5] [2] She was then deported to Bolzano Transit Camp,[5] [1] [2] where she worked as a doctor in the Lager infirmary.[6] Buffulini led the resistance movement at Bolzano,[2] and kept in communication with Lelio Basso.[2] At Bolzano, she also met Communist leader .[5] In February 1945, the SS locked Buffulini up in the cells.[5]
In 2008, a road in Bolzano was dedicated to Buffulini on the 63rd anniversary of the liberation of the Bolzano camp.[5] [1]