Italian Social Republic collapsed. In Italy, this day is known as Liberation Day ("festa della liberazione"). On this day a general partisan uprising, alongside the efforts of Allied forces during their final offensive in Italy, managed to oust the Germans from Italy almost entirely. At the point of its demise, the Italian Social Republic had existed for slightly more than nineteen months. On 27 April, partisans caught Mussolini, his mistress (Clara Petacci), several RSI ministers and several other Italian Fascists while they were attempting to flee. On 28 April, the partisans shot Mussolini and most of the other captives. The RSI Minister of
Clara Louise Burnham Awake." The 1923 film, "A Chapter in Her Life" is based on Burnham's novel "Jewel: A Chapter in Her Life". Burnham had no children and she resided with her father. She was a Christian Scientist, and cultured pianist. She died at the family home at Casco Bay, Bailey Island, Maine, June 20, 1927. Clara Louise Burnham Clara Louise Burnham (May 25, 1854 – June 20, 1927) was an American novelist. After the success of "No Gentlemen" (1881), other books followed, including "A Sane Lunatic" (1882), "Dearly Bought" (1884), "Next Door" (1886), "Young Maids and Old" (1888), "The Mistress of Beech