Francesco Manazzoni was born on 6 May 1891 in Rivolto (Udine).
Arrested in Ronchi dei Legionari, after imprisonment in the Coroneo prison in Trieste he was deported to Germany on transport no. 79. He arrived in Dachau on 20 August 1944 and was registered under prisoner number 91663; he was transferred to Natzweiler on 24 August 1944, returned to Dachau on 14 September 1944, and was then moved on 1 October 1944 to Gröditz (a subcamp of Flossenbürg), where he was registered under number 28104 and died on 16 April 1944.
Francesco was a partisan of the Garibaldi Natisone Division, Garibaldi Trieste Battalion.