Rue Jean-Baptiste Fontanarosa

Jean-Baptiste Fontanarosa was born in Corte in 1910. he was a resistance fighter and member of the Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur (FFI), belonging to the Corps Franc de l'Isère. In 1944, he was deported from Compiègne to Auschwitz, transferred to Buchenwald and then to Flossenbau; he was assigned to the Hersbrück external work kommando (construction site of an underground factory manufacturing airplane engines), he died in deportation. Recognized Died in deportation. His name appears, with those of Ange-Antoine Pietri, Jean Nicoli and Pierre Griffi, on the Stéle Commémorative located on the sidewalk, square Pierre Griffi, Corti. His also appears on the Monument to the Dead of the city of Bastia.