Dall’Oglio, Alfredo
Item
Name
Dall’Oglio, Alfredo
Given name
Alfredo
Family name
Dall’Oglio
Relation
French YCW leader
One-line bio
Italian-born French YCW leader sent to Germany under the Compulsory Work Service system, where he continued to organise workers, leading to his arrest and deportation to and eventual death in a concentration camp. He was beatified on 13 December 2025.
Biography
Born on 6 July, 1921, in Borgo Valsugana (Trentino, Italy). His father emigrated to France due to a lack of work. The family settled in Romainville, where his father found employment as a carpenter. A. Dall'Oglio became a naturalized French citizen on 6 October, 1938.
He worked as a pharmacy assistant in Levallois-Perret. He came to understand Nazism through a Jewish doctor he met there. At the same time, he joined the Young Christian Workers (JOC), becoming its federal leader for the Paris-East region in 1940. He was summoned to the Compulsory Work Service (STO) on 3 March, 1943, following the Vichy law that mandated the conscription of all young men born between 1920 and 1922 to work in Germany.
In Germany, he was employed as a laborer in the Warnecke and Böhm paint and lacquer factory in Berlin-Weissensee.
The prohibited activities in which he participates fall under his jurisdiction as a federal JOC (Young Christian Workers): organizing sectors of Catholic action. He quickly becomes a leading JOC member responsible for the Northeast zone of Berlin, and is overflowing with pastoral activities: caring for the sick, study circles, various meetings in cafes or in the woods.
In accordance with the Nazi decree of 3 December, 1943, against French Catholic Action among French workers in Nazi Germany, he was arrested on 6 June, 1944, along with 15 other Catholic leaders from North Berlin. The interrogations were conducted with very good intelligence on the Nazi side. They were imprisoned in Alexanderplatz prison.
He was sent on 9 September to the Arbeitserziehungslager (labor camp) in Wülheide. This was a forced labor camp. These camps were created specifically to deter forced laborers from continuing any resistance. They were sent there for a short stay, their condition upon return intended to discourage anyone who might have any inclination to rebel against the Nazi system. The conditions there were extremely harsh.
He died of exhaustion on 31 October, 1944 in Wühleide.
He worked as a pharmacy assistant in Levallois-Perret. He came to understand Nazism through a Jewish doctor he met there. At the same time, he joined the Young Christian Workers (JOC), becoming its federal leader for the Paris-East region in 1940. He was summoned to the Compulsory Work Service (STO) on 3 March, 1943, following the Vichy law that mandated the conscription of all young men born between 1920 and 1922 to work in Germany.
In Germany, he was employed as a laborer in the Warnecke and Böhm paint and lacquer factory in Berlin-Weissensee.
The prohibited activities in which he participates fall under his jurisdiction as a federal JOC (Young Christian Workers): organizing sectors of Catholic action. He quickly becomes a leading JOC member responsible for the Northeast zone of Berlin, and is overflowing with pastoral activities: caring for the sick, study circles, various meetings in cafes or in the woods.
In accordance with the Nazi decree of 3 December, 1943, against French Catholic Action among French workers in Nazi Germany, he was arrested on 6 June, 1944, along with 15 other Catholic leaders from North Berlin. The interrogations were conducted with very good intelligence on the Nazi side. They were imprisoned in Alexanderplatz prison.
He was sent on 9 September to the Arbeitserziehungslager (labor camp) in Wülheide. This was a forced labor camp. These camps were created specifically to deter forced laborers from continuing any resistance. They were sent there for a short stay, their condition upon return intended to discourage anyone who might have any inclination to rebel against the Nazi system. The conditions there were extremely harsh.
He died of exhaustion on 31 October, 1944 in Wühleide.
Country of origin
English
Italy
Geographic area
Trentino
Birth date
July 6, 1921
Birth place
Borgo Valsugana
Death date
October 31, 1944
Death place
Wülheide
Movement
French JOC
Affiliation
French JOC