Beneath a Scarlet Sky

by Mark T. Sullivan

“Nothing in life worth doing is easy,”

The Alps had taught him not to fret

Sometimes happiness comes to us. But usually you have to seek it out.

Father Re was honored by the Israeli Community of Milan for selflessly risking his own life to save Jews. Father Re died in 1965 and is entombed on the ski slopes above Motta, beneath a golden-plated statue of the Madonna said to have been paid for by all the people he’d helped before, during, and after the war. His boys’ school has since been rebuilt as a hotel named Casa Alpina. His chapel is gone.

At the wheel of a Ferrari, Ascari won the Formula 1 World Drivers' Championships in 1952 and 1953.

Simon Wiesenthal, the famous Nazi hunter, tracked Rauff down in 1962.