Timeline

1382

TRIESTE

Joins the House of Habsburg


1867

TRIESTE

becomes part of the Austro-Hungarian(

or Habsburg) Empire


1876

born in  Trieste as Frederico Pollack to a

Jewish family as an Austrian national


1895

GINO PARIN

arrives in Munich to study at the Art Academy


1898

GINO PARIN

becomes a Swiss citizen, is baptized,

and marries Ella Auler


1900

GINO PARIN

begins using the name Gino Parin


1912

Main synagogue is built in the city’s center


1914

World War I begins

GINO PARIN

Returns to Trieste and lives with Fanny Tedeschi


1918

World War I ends


1920

TRIESTE

Becomes a part of Italy


1930

GINO PARIN

paints Italy’s King and Queen,

and meets Magda Springer


1937

GINO PARIN

receives the Premio del Duce

(Mussolini) prize


1938

Mussolini’s infamous speech;

Racial Laws established

GINO PARIN

classified as Jewish,

work as an artist is restricted

1939


World War II begins;

Nazi Germany invades Poland


1942

GINO PARIN

begins Cristo painting


1943

Nazi Germany invades Northern Italy,

including Trieste


1944

Trieste

Crematorium is added to the prison of

GINO PARIN

arrested in Trieste by the Gestapo; deported

to Fossoli di Carpi, then Bergen-Belsen, where he dies


1945

World War II ends


1979

Magda Springer dies


2019

Gino Parin

Stolperstein installed at

last known Trieste residence