Nair Lazarine Dall'Oca

The daughter of the carpenter Carmino Lazarine and Rosa Furlan, Nair Lazarine, who had 6 siblings, had taken for a few years the lessons given by her father in a rural school. After marrying the mason Virgilio Dall’Oca she went to live with him and Nicola and Aida D’Albenzio, uncle and aunt of her husband, in São Paulo.

In 1936 the couple participated in the activities of the Center for Social Culture of São Paulo, an anarchist center frequented by many activists including many Spanish but which was closed by the authorities in November 1937.

During the dictatorship of Getulio Vargas, she was then part of the group of anarchists, the majority of vegetarians and naturists, who decided to found the Nossa Chacara community in Itaim (São Paulo). The group initiated this project was made up of Germinal Leuenroth, Nicola D’Albenzio, Virgilio Dall’Oca, Justino Salguero, Salvador Arrebola, Antonio Castro, Joao Rojo, Benedito Romano José Oliva Castillo, Roque Branco, Antonio Valverde, Cecilio Díaz Lopez and Lucca Gabriel. On 9 November 1939, the Naturist Society Amis de Nossa Chacara was officially registered with the authorities. It was in this community, including after the reopening in July 1945 of the São Paulo Center for Social Culture, that many meetings were held, including regional and national anarchist congresses during the period of clandestinity, which allowed the reorganization of the Brazilian anarchist movement hard hit by the dictatorship of Vargas. Nair Lazarine Dall’Oca was often the manager with Aida D’Albenzio of the cuisine and food of residents or visitors of the community.

During the publication of the periodicals El Libertario (1960) and Dealbar (1965), she contributed financially with her companion to their support and dissemination as well as to the support of the Mundo Libre publishing house in Rio de Janeiro. At the military coup of April 1964, the Society of Friends of Nossa Chacara decided to sell the property of Itaim to acquire a new site in Mogi das Cruzes, a site that was opened in early 1967 and in which the couple Dall’Oca had participated financially. After the closure in early 1969, for security reasons, of the São Paulo Center for Social Culture, then the assault by the military in October 1969 of the Anarchist Center “José Oiticica” in Rio de Janeiro and the arrest of its members, some of whom were tortured, the Dall’Oca couple participated very actively in the campaign to find funds to ensure the costs of the trial – which lasted until 1972 – of these companions Then the couple settled in Santos.

With several years of Alzheimer’s disease, Nair Lazarine Dall’Oca died of a heart attack on August 20, 2010.