Aurelia Josz

Aurelia Josz was born in Florence to a secular family of modest means; her father was an engraver. After establishing herself as an elementary school teacher, she moved to Milan and, in 1901, opened a technical school for orphans that soon evolved into Italy’s first agrarian school for women. Josz went on to open other agricultural schools throughout Italy, wrote more than ten books, and continued to teach in girls’ primary schools. She was murdered in Auschwitz in 1944.